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20 Ethics Ed Biology 101, English literature, calculus, and . . . ethics? Emory’s Center for Ethics is at the heart of a range of efforts to infuse education here with an ethical sensibility, from the College to the professional schools—and far beyond the classroom. By Jim auchmutey

26 An American Warrior Colonel Ted Westhusing 03PhD wrote his dissertation on military honor and considered Iraq a “just war” in the ancient tradition, so he signed up—a decision that probably cost the West Point professor his life. By mary J. Loftus

32 From Lab to Life Startling breakthroughs in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology are giving the newly appointed Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues—vice chaired by President James Wagner—plenty to think about. By Mary J. Loftus

36 The Devil You Know The digital revolution is transforming the way we work, play, and socialize, creating new connections and making worlds of information immediately accessible. But is there a dark side to the way people behave behind the screen? By paige p. Parvin 96G

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42 Philanthropist honors surgeon with gift Wonderful, Wicked Wikipedia Former Emory marketing intern 43 goizueta grad invests Ani Vrabel 10C describes her efforts to shape the in young students University’s Wikipedia entry and her love-hate relationship with the vast, enigmatic web resource. 44 alumnus makes challenge gift to atwood, live Find multimedia coverage n de emory law fund of the Ellmann Lecture Series featuring novelist or Margaret Atwood; see story, page 6. nn b nn tango test Seniors at Emory’s Wesley On the cover: Illustration by Alex Nabaum. ngo: a ngo: Woods Center see if they can dance their way to better balance, mobility, and overall health in this y; ta y; m video; see story, page 16. r . a . s . ng: u ng: usi h west winter 2011 magazine 1 register

50 Emory Medalists 2010 Nurse practitioner Twilla Haynes 80MN and business leader William Warren III 53B earn the highest alumni honor.

52 alumni ink

54 stellar duo

59 tribute Carolyn carson moore S c h a i b l e

of note 60 coda evolving empathy

6 Mistress of Mischief Author Margaret Atwood explored other planets, burning bushes, and “ustopias” as this year’s Ellmann Lecturer. (Just don’t call her stuff sci-fi.)

9 Portraits of diversity 16 Prescription: tango

10 the spokesman i s b a c k 16 nasa grant launches at oxford study on space radiation 11 what stone-age tools tell us 17 sustainable efforts finding green friends 12 campus beat E m o r y ’ s on facebook student honor council 17 history by Skype 13 zzzzs and disease 18 Dynamic Forces c a n 14 in the ring with a calm mind bring the shadowboxers better health?

15 doh! the “homer 19 Johnson medalists simpson” gene

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8 Happy Thoughts Want to be happy? And if so, is that bad? Faith leaders joined His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama to debate the path to true fulfillment at the Interfaith Summit on Happiness, held at Emory in October. Photo by Bryan Meltz.

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The Choices We Make

When I was about fourteen—the age In this issue of Emory Magazine, we ask my son is now—I stole a pair of bowling shoes. a few questions of our own, starting with the It was a snap, really. Some friends and I meaning and impact of ethical engagement in had gone bowling on a rainy afternoon, out of the University’s vision statement. Can ethical small-town boredom, I suppose. Rather than behavior be taught to college students, or is it changing back into my own shoes after we deeply embedded in character formation that finished, I walked out in the bowling shoes. I begins at home many years before? The answer, thought they were cool. I thought I was cool. it appears, may be a little of both; what our I also thought that taking them was not faculty can do is urge students to question, to such a big deal. I had left my own tennis shoes, think deeply, to assess and actively respond to after all, which were actually much nicer. So I problems, and to consider the lives of others dif- didn’t even bother to try to hide them from my ferent from their own. What is also clear is that parents. Which was a mistake. Emory hopes to see its stated institutional com- My father was livid. He roared. He made mitment to ethics reflected in its students, as in me take the shoes back, find the bowling alley all of us who make up the broader community. manager, and apologize (the mystified man The challenges are steeper for some than Everyone wants to be a kindly returned my own shoes). I truly believe others. As vice chair of President Obama’s my dad thought jail time would not have been special Commission for the Study of Bioethical “good person,” and most too harsh a lesson. Issues, Emory’s own president is confronting At the time, I thought his reaction was over- some of the thorniest and most compelling of us, I would bet, think kill. But now that I’m a parent myself, I under- ethical problems of the day in the field of stand that it wasn’t just about some worn-out synthetic biology—including the fascinating of ourselves that way. bowling shoes. It was about his need to see his question of whether life can, or should, be cre- own high standards and deep values reflected ated through technology. In this issue, we also in me, and his keen sense of frustration and visit the widow of Emory graduate Colonel Ted failure when that reflection blurred. To me, tak- Westhusing 03PhD, who was ultimately unable ing the shoes seemed harmless enough—more to reconcile his idea of a “just war” with the mischievous than malicious. To him, it was work he did in Iraq. stealing, plain and simple. And if I was capable And, as virtual reality becomes the new of that, what other bad things might I do? reality, we asked some faculty experts to weigh Everyone wants to be a “good person,” and in on how people behave online—where some- most of us, I would bet, think of ourselves that times consequences far outstrip intentions. way. We’re so confident that we relish hypo- Most of us don’t have to make recommen- thetical scenarios in which our personal ethics dations to the White House on bioethics policy, are put to the test, as in those TV shows where or question whether our contribution to the ordinary citizens are lured into moral predica- US presence in Iraq aligns with our studied ments while hidden cameras roll: What would beliefs regarding war and ethics. But we do you do if you found a wallet full of cash? Saw a make choices every day that shape who we are, woman being harassed on the street? Suspected as well as who others perceive us to be. Would your neighbors of child abuse? Would you step you keep some extra change given by mistake? in and do the “right” thing? Of course. Fire off an insult on an Internet forum under But the right thing isn’t always clear, and it a screen name? Spread a juicy rumor about a can mean different things to different people. friend? Pretend to be sick so you can stay home Take that last example, in which you’re con- from work? Choose not to help a stranger in cerned for a neighbor child’s safety. For some, trouble? Steal an old pair of bowling shoes? the most ethical course might be speaking Are you a good person? Am I? directly to the parents, or reaching out to the Honestly, I don’t know. I can only say for child; for others, making an anonymous phone sure that I’m glad my dad made me return call to the authorities; for someone else, the those shoes. A harmless enough prank, prob- right path would be minding their own business ably; but given the choice, I’d make my son do rather than meddling in others’ personal affairs. the same thing.—P.P.P. The alluring question, “What would you do?” makes for lively dinner conversation, but gets trickier when it’s asked in real life.

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AUTUMN 2010

You have done it again. “I am really proud to see Emory What a fantastic edition. I just Raising Hope Public health heroes stem the tide received my print edition in the of the world’s deadliest diseases mail today at my office and I go across platforms, but most look forward to reading cover to cover. The timing and continu- pleased with the content of ity of delivery of the email blast is quite noticeable and effective. your work.” In our world of information at light speed, augmenting multiple —Peter Elmore 86C forms of media at the proper time Advances Against AIDS | Health Wanted | Campaign Emory: Heartfelt Legacy is proving effective. I am really proud to see Emory go across platforms, but most pleased with the content of your work. You tell our story of how inspiring Emory University is to so many of us. I excellence in feature writing from the Council I have just finished reading your am lucky to work for the 2009 US Advertising for the Advancement and Support of Education, wonderful prelude to Emory Magazine, autumn Agency of the Year, the Martin Agency, where District III. 2010. It touched on a prominent theme in my I work with all forms of media, but I am also life. I have become increasingly aware of how privileged to serve a university proving to Mary Loftus’s story, “Health Wanted,” fortunate I have been in so many ways: having make Earth a better place. is a great piece of journalism, a tough story to been born when and where I was, having made Peter Elmore 86C tell that was very well told by this talented and it through medical school, and having the President, insightful writer. She took me right there from family and professional lives which I have had. Emory University Sports Hall of Fame the lede and kept me there. Great work. For some time I have been of the belief that Richmond, Virginia Jerry Grillo, writer the best manner of expressing appreciation is Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia where it will do the most good, among those Good job on the Rosalynn Carter piece who have been the least lucky in where and (“Shattering Stigma”) in this quarter’s issue. Glad I visited Mozambique in 1990, when I when they live. As a physician whose specialty to see it. I’m also delighted to see the iPad app. was a United Methodist pastor serving in Indi- was psychiatry, it has seemed less obvious to Terr y Adamson ana. I carried a suitcase full of medications for me how I could contribute than if I were a Executive Vice President, the United Methodist hospital in Inhambane surgeon or infectious disease specialist. Your National Geographic Society and for the Seminary clinic in Maputo. I found essay stimulated the thought which I had not Washington, D.C. the hospital in Inhambane and the much larger previously had, working through public health. one in Maputo to be so severely understaffed. Slum tourism is not what I have in mind; Thank you so much for your recent Mozambique continues to suffer from the helping people is. Thanks for your time and an story (“Lost and Found,” autumn 2010) about effects of being an Apartheid front-line state. excellent issue. David Thon and his work in southern Sudan. I I found the country to be remarkable for what Art Bobruff 69M had the privilege of working with David when they were able to do following decolonization New London, New Hampshire he was a Bonner Scholar at Mars Hill Col- and before that movement. lege. I worked alongside him in many of his Donna Springer 83MDiv I was thrilled to read your recent community service placements during that Lithonia article in the Emory Magazine, “Positive Signs.” time, and he always approached service in the I have shared this with many of my CFAR [Cen- community with openness, inquisitiveness, I love Emory Magazine. It was an ter for AIDS Research] colleagues, and we agree and respect. He challenged his peers and his unexpected perk that came with being a parent it was a great overview of our HIV research. teachers to ask the difficult questions about of an Emory student. I never expected that The primary aim for the CFAR at Emory is to injustice in the world. In so many ways, he was this magazine would come to mean so much support HIV/AIDS researchers. The motivation (and continues to be) my teacher, and I am to me. I read it from cover to cover every time behind the CFAR model is the knowledge that constantly in awe of his passion, commitment it comes out and often read the suggested providing shared resources and opportunities and determination to make the world a better readings within the articles. I hope it continues for collaboration will have the greatest impact place. His life and work challenge us all to take to arrive after graduation, as our son, Charlie on moving science forward. We accomplish seriously our responsibility as global citizens. Rocco 11C, is graduating from Emory this May. this in many ways, including funding for pilot Thank you for making David’s story available I would subscribe to the magazine if it did not grants, specimen-processing services, develop- to the Emory community. come automatically. I love the past controver- ing grant writing skills, and providing mentor- Missy Harris 01T sies and your responses to the incensed and the ship. We really appreciate your coverage of the Weaverville, North Carolina endorsers. Please continue, as I have no doubt research we are so proud of. you will, to produce this great magazine. Cameron Tran Editor’s Note: This article by Patrick Adams Arlyne Russo Research project coordinator, Emory CFAR 08MPH recently won a Special Merit Award for Fairfield, Connecticut Atlanta

winter 2011 magazine 5 of Note Mistress of Mischief Margaret Atwood’s other worlds Fans of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature—now among the preeminent lecture series in North America—have come to expect major literary lights and stimulating thought. But joie de vivre? The series director, associate professor Joseph Skibell, uttered that promise—dressed up in French, no less—in his opening-night introduction of Margaret Atwood. Beyond the series’ high intellectual content, he said, it “has involved . . . chamber music, mariachi bands, margarita fountains, barbecues, fiddle contests, and Nobel notes on Giving Plause: Atwood Prize–winning poets describes her work as speculative the ellmanN declaiming their fiction rather than sci-fi. verse. The series is a lectures celebration not just of literature but of life.” mean science fiction, speculative fiction, and sword and richard ellmanN At seventy-one, though, would Atwood sorcery fantasy. Emory’s first Robert W. continue the tradition as vigorously? The short A literary skirmish broke out in 2009 when longtime Woodruff professor (1980– answer is: never count out a woman raised science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin 88H wrote in the 1987), biographer of James without modern conveniences in the north Guardian: “Margaret Atwood doesn’t want any of her books Joyce and Oscar Wilde, and woods of Canada whose mother was an ice to be called science fiction. . . . [S]he says that everything noted writer and lecturer dancer until the age of seventy-five. The longer that happens in her novels is possible and may even have answer follows. already happened, so they can’t be science fiction. . . . This the lecture series Atwood proclaimed at the opening of the arbitrarily restrictive definition seems designed to protect Three talks, a reading, and first lecture in the series—titled “In Other her novels from being relegated to a genre still shunned by a book signing, free and Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination”—“I hidebound readers, reviewers, and prize-awarders.” open to the public; directed have spent quite a lot of my life writing fiction Tough talk, and it has compelled Atwood to be deliberate by Joseph Skibell and poetry and some other things, but this has about what science fiction is and isn’t and where her own not made me a professional scholar or expert books fall along these fuzzy divides. An intellectual battle past lecturers on any subject, including the ones I am about clearly has been joined from which neither side will retreat. Umberto Eco, 2009 to discuss.” As Atwood explains her position, “What I mean by science Salman Rushdie, 2004 Atwood, though, is every bit the expert fiction is those books that descend from H. G. Wells’ War of n de A. S. Byatt, 1999 that she swears she is not, especially in talking the Worlds, which treats of an invasion by Martians—things or nn b nn

Seamus Heaney, 1988 about SF. The term variously has been used to that could not possibly happen. Whereas, for me, speculative a

winter 2011 New Marshall Scholar is Emory’s fourteenth Pharmacology chair elected to Institute of Medicine Shivani Jain 11C was awarded the 2011 Marshall Scholarship for graduate The Institute of Medicine has elected Raymond Dingledine, executive study in England, the second consecutive Emory student to receive the associate dean for research and professor and chair of the Department of scholarship and the fourteenth overall. Jain plans to study global health Pharmacology, to its new class of sixty-five leading health scientists. Din- and economic development, health policy, and infectious disease con- gledine’s election brings Emory’s total IOM membership to twenty-two. trol in London and Cambridge.

6 magazine winter 2011 atwood on writing the handmaid's tale: “Especially in relation to the  position of women and totalitarian states, I asked myself: How thin is this ice, how far can I of Note go, how much trouble am I in, what’s down there if I fall?”

fiction means things that descend from Jules Verne’s books about submarines and such— things that really could happen. . . . I would place my own books in this second category.” It is not that she doesn’t like Martians, she pro- tested. “They just don’t fall in my skill set.” She spoke charmingly of the early influences—Dell mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Grimm’s Fairy Tales—on her and her elder brother. They were highly creative kids, fighting over colored pencils to depict their flying rabbits. Her brother’s rabbits lived on the planet Bunny Land, where they battled evil foxes, robots and man-eating plants, and lethal animals. Atwood’s rabbits “inhabited a more mysterious place called Mischief Land.” Arguably, the author has never left there. Lecture two, “Burning Bushes,” delved into her years at the University of Toronto studying with Northrop Frye. She eventually learned “where angels, devils, and talking vegetation went after the age of John Milton and Paradise L o s t .” Their exodus was to the other worlds of science fiction, which Atwood believes often has been used The mood soon lifted, though, and here’s the promised child’s play: to act out theological doctrine. Why this migration from final tally on the joie de vivre in this year’s lectures. While Atwood described— Earth to, in Atwood’s construct, Planet X? “We no longer here, Atwood galloped from one thing to the next, those and displayed—the rich imaginary worlds believe in the old religious furniture. . . . On Planet X, [gods loose grey curls darting to and fro, like her quick wit. In she and her brother and devils] can take part in a plausible story—and we still between the demanding lectures, she fit in a Creativity Con- created as children, want to follow them there because, like it or not, our own versation, an appearance in an English class (she is, indeed, including Bunny Land deep inner lives still contain them.” a “major author”), tweeted, told jokes (what is the difference and Mischief Land. In “Dire Cartographies,” the final lecture, the subject between capitalist hell and socialist hell?), spoke in parables was ustopia, a word Atwood created from utopia and (the fox and the cat), and belted out one of the God’s dystopia. As one might imagine, Atwood is more inter- Gardener’s hymns from The Year of the Flood with Joseph ested in the complex intersection of utopia and dystopia Skibell. It doesn’t get more joyous than that—at twenty-one than either genre proper. “Scratch the surface a little,” she or seventy-one. says. “Within each utopia is a dystopia, and the reverse.” Vice President and Secretary Rosemary Magee, who was She talked at length about the first of her three ustopias, the other half of the Creativity Conversation, noted: “Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Treated as a “yarn” in the UK, in literary genius spans multiple generations and provokes deep this country critic Mary McCarthy said the novel lacked thinking about who we are as human beings and who we imagination and couldn’t happen here. And yet, someone want to be. Drawing hundreds of people to her lectures and wrote on the Venice Beach sea wall, “The Handmaid’s Tale reading, she was profound and prophetic.” To which, one more is already here.” “p” word seems appropriate: peppy. —Susan Carini 04G

For a guide to the multimedia that The website Big Think also features content on Atwood, including the find more Atwood’s visit spawned, including video topics “The Challenge of Speculative Fiction,” “How Twitter Is Like n de of the three lectures and reading, see African Tribal Drums,” and the not-to-be-missed “Understanding or Online emory.edu/magazine. Canadian Humor.” See bigthink.com/margaretatwood. nn b nn a

Professor Nanette Wenger named Georgia Woman of the Year Debate team is number one Nanette Wenger, professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiol- Emory’s Barkley Forum debate team ranked number one in national ogy, was awarded the 2010 Georgia Woman of the Year by the Georgia intercollegiate varsity debate at the close of the fall semester. Seniors Commission on Women. Wenger, former chief of cardiology at Grady Ovais Inamullah 11C and Stephen Weil 11C were invited to the Dart- Memorial Hospital, is an internationally known expert on coronary heart mouth Round Robin Tournament in January, marking Emory’s seven- disease in women. teenth consecutive year of participation.

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function is more effective. But mental pain cannot be subdued by Happy Thoughts physical comfort.” Happiness is generated Faith leaders say happiness is a worthy goal— internally. “It is a happy human being who creates a happy though it might not be what you think ambience, a happy ambience does not necessarily create a happy The Declaration of independence proclaims that the Happiness is radically human being,” said Nasr. “Real pursuit of happiness, along with life and liberty, is an unalienable right. subjective. “How wrong happiness must come from within,” But many of us have been taught that happiness is a selfish or superficial Tolstoy was when he wrote in the said the Dalai Lama. “When I say emotion. Is there a place for happiness alongside good work? Should we beginning of Anna Karenina that happiness, it is mainly in the sense seek to be happy even as others are suffering? all happy families are alike . . . hap- of deep satisfaction.” The consensus from spiritual leaders of several major religious piness isn’t like that. It comes in traditions, who gathered at Emory in October, seems to be that happi- many forms,” Sacks said. “We are Happiness can be found ness is sought by all humans—and rightfully so—but that true spiritual enriched by the sheer multiplicity here on earth. “God’s presence happiness must be rooted in gratitude and compassion, and given as well of ways in which human beings and blessings can be found in the as received. have flourished.” form of this–worldly ‘goods.’ Those As part of a five-year investigation into the pursuit of happiness, goods include food, drink, shelter, Emory’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) invited notable clothing, liberty, peace, family, voices from the Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist traditions to meaningful work, community, speak at the Interfaith Summit on Happiness, which was moderated by and a general state of well-being,” Krista Tippett, host of NPR’s On Being. “Happiness seems always to be said Jefferts Schori. “Jesus speaks best achieved in community, if not of himself as bridegroom in a in communion, with others,” says marriage or remarriage between John Witte, CSLR director. God and humanity—reuniting the His Holiness the XIV Dalai creator with created—and the rich Lama, Presidential Distinguished bounty that that brings.” Professor at Emory, said finding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori commonalities among the major Happiness occurs in faiths is essential for peaceful communal celebration. coexistence. “Harmony on the Happiness cannot be “To sit together, drink together, purchased. His Holiness the XIV basis of mutual admiration and “The consumer share one another’s songs and sto- Dalai Lama respect is very possible to develop,” society is constantly tempting us ries, that is beautiful,” Sacks said. he said. The Dalai Lama often all the time to spend money we says that the very purpose of life is to be happy, so long as “one person or don’t have to buy things we don’t Happiness involves helping group does not seek happiness or glory at the expense of others.” need for the sake of a happiness others. “Jesus’s ministry, his pub- The Dalai Lama was joined on the panel by the Most Reverend that won’t last,” Sacks said. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of the United Hebrew Congregations Happiness involves the of the Commonwealth, and Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a pro- body and the mind. “It is fessor at George Washington University. As they explored the concept important to us that God took of happiness through the texts, tenets, and teachings of their respective physical form,” said Jefferts Schori. faiths, several points of convergence emerged. “We are made in the image of God and reflect the divine. Our bodies The Summit on Happiness is available for are a blessing.” “This body is some-

find more n de listening. Go to emory.edu/magazine. thing precious,” said the Dalai Lama. “It needs shelter, food, and Rabbi Lord or

Online Jonathan Sacks b nn sleep. When the body is fit, mental a

winter 2011 Microneedle grant may ease the pain of flu shots National Cancer Institute award to WCI oncologist The National Institutes of Health has awarded $10 million to the Georgia Suresh Ramalingam, a medical oncologist at the Winship Cancer Insti- Institute of Technology, Emory, and PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit tute, has been awarded a National Cancer Institute Clinical Investigator organization, to advance a technology for the painless self-adminis- Team Leadership Award, a $100,000 grant recognizing clinical investi- tration of flu vaccine using patches containing tiny microneedles that gators at NCI-designated cancer centers who provide leadership and dissolve into the skin. support for institutional and multicenter clinical trials.

8 magazine winter 2011 of Note The Emory Project Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive  On display February 3 through March 5 | www.transform.emory.edu/dawoudbey

lic work, is most essentially focused on feeding, healing, and teaching people—in that order,” said Jefferts Schori. “Using the blessings of this world for the benefit of all.”

Happiness can be found in prayer or meditation. “The five daily prayers pull us out of time to a place that is sacred,” said Nasr. “Punctuation in a life that goes faster and faster.”

Happiness comes from finding perspective. “When we face a sad thing, if you look very closely, it looks unbearable, but if you look from a distance, it is not that unbearable,”

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr Faces of Emory

said the Dalai Lama. “Like Jacob Juxtaposition can create a powerful impression. pairs to be very different from one another as far as wrestling with the angel,” said That’s what celebrated photographer Dawoud Bey position, ethnicity, age, that sort of thing,” says Mary Sacks, “I will not let go of the bad sought with the Emory Project, a series of thirty-six Catherine Johnson, assistant director for the Visual thing until I find the blessing.” portraits of pairs of Emory’s people, many of whom Arts Department and Gallery. had never met. Bey spent a month at the University The Emory Project was commissioned by the Happiness requires self- last spring as an artist in residence, creating a visual Department of Visual Arts in partnership with the awareness and acceptance. record of the community’s diversity by pairing figures Transforming Community Project, a five-year initiative special “Once it was asked of a great Sufi from vastly different parts of the campus—from main- to examine race and difference across the University. y/ master, ‘What do you want?’ and he tenance workers to students, poets to administrators. Bey, who began his career in 1975 with the series ud be o said, ‘I want not to want,’ ” said Nasr. Above, Kali Ahset Amen Strayhorn 12PhD, a Harlem, USA, is a professor of photography at Colum- graduate student in sociology who studies political bia College Chicago; his work has been exhibited : daw

ait Happiness involves letting and economic inequity, joins Geshe Ngawang Phende, around the world and is included in the permanent r t

or go. “We must transcend the a Buddhist monk, in the Schwartz Center for Perform- collections of numerous museums including the Art n; p stifling prison of the ego,” said ing Arts. Bey particularly wanted to photograph a Institute of Chicago and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. de Buddhist monk because of Emory’s significant ties to The photos in the Emory Project, on display in the or Nasr. “The Buddhist practice is . . . Tibet and also Atlanta’s Drepung Loseling Monastery, Visual Arts Gallery from February 3 through March nn b letting go,” said the Dalai Lama.

r: a “Letting go of negative thoughts where Geshe Phende is a resident teacher. 5, will become part of the University’s public art as n and emotions.”—M.J.L. “The main thing was that Dawoud wanted the collection.—P.P.P.

Keeping teen dating relationships violence free Professor of global health receives Royal Society award Start Strong Atlanta announced the launch of a social networking site for The Royal Society of South Africa has awarded Keith Klugman the 2011 teens, www.KeepItStrongATL.org, where they can build skills for healthy John F. W. Herschel Medal, the top science award in South Africa. Klug- relationships and learn that relationship violence is never acceptable. man is the William H. Foege Professor of Global Health in the Rollins Start Strong Atlanta was created in 2008 by the Jane Fonda Center at School of Public Health and is a leading expert on antibiotic resistance in Emory with $1 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. pneumococcus, the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia.

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The Spokesman Speaks Again research funding Access: Granted Oxford paper fills a news niche $535.1 million Sophomore Grace Cummings 11Ox first Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama to the Atlanta received from external funding approached the editors of the campus news- campus, and a well-known rapper’s unexpected agencies in 2010. $500.7 million paper, the Oxford Spokesman, about drawing appearance at the Fall Band Party. The paper went to the Woodruff Health cartoons for the newly revived publication. She also features student opinion pieces and com- Sciences Center wound up becoming its editor-in-chief, sharing mentary on politics, music, and movies. that slot with Dallas Hayden 11Ox. TheSpokesman has been published at 10.5 percent “In order to draw cartoons, I had to attend Oxford for decades, but not consistently. Neil increase in funding since 2009 meetings and eventually I started writing Penn, emeritus professor of history, articles,” and one thing led helped revive the newspaper in 1966, $396.5 million, or to another, and the role of faculty adviser was 74 percent Cummings then taken over by Professor of from the federal government, says. “Although English Gretchen Schulz. Kenneth including $350.5 million from the Oxford’s stu- Carter 87Ox 89C, now professor of National Institutes of Health, dents have repu- psychology at Oxford, was a Spokes- an increase of 17.4 percent over tations for being man editor when he was a student. 2009. The NIH represents 88.4 very involved in Eventually, however, the local percent of all federal dollars campus activi- company that printed the newspa- awarded to Emory ties, people are per closed and publication ceased. often engrossed in When Oxford began offering a sampling of the grants their own clubs and a course in journalism in fall $8 million to the Alzheimer’s academics and rarely 2008, taught by Charles Howard Disease Research Center know what’s going on Candler Professor of English outside of them. The Lucas Carpenter, it $6.2 million to reduce health newspaper keeps peo- sparked an interest disparities in rural southwest ple informed. I often in bringing back the Georgia refer to the Spokesman Spokesman. $3.4 million to create an as an ‘everything-club.’ ” “It’s important international genomics database The paper was resur- that students have from patients with autism and rected last year to help their own news vehi- other developmental disorders keep students abreast cle,” says Carpenter, m o

The “everything” c of campus happen- the paper’s current o. club: Oxford’s $1 million to develop dialysis t ings, new courses, and student newspaper now adviser. “It’s part of a equipment tailored to children ho ckp recurring events such publishes online; editor vibrant campus.” o as the Fall Formal and Grace Cummings 11Ox. The latest issues $90.4 million y: isty: e

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Break. “But we have had a few truly news- only in the virtual Recovery and Reinvestment Act s worthy items grace our pages and website,” sense. “Dallas and I are trying out a new ng Cummings adds. “Last year, we reported on Spokesman website (www.oxfordspeaks.com) doubled in five years the memorial services of two classmates who similar to the Wheel’s website,” Cummings During the past five years, Emory’s ace cummi passed away during the school year. We also says. New articles are published every few research funding has grown from y gr

reported on a groundbreaking benefit dance weeks. But, in a nod to the idiom that every- tes

$353.9 million in 2006 to $535.1 r u for Haiti earthquake victims and art displays in thing old becomes new again, the editors have million in 2010, representing a 51.2 o : c the library done by Oxford professors.” proposed a new project: a print issue of the percent increase s ng This year’s staff has written about incidents Spokesman, to be distributed to students and of vandalism on campus, the return visit by His faculty.—M.J.L. cummi

winter 2011 Three nursing leaders named American Academy of Nursing fellows Emory director elected president of Infectious Diseases Society Susan Grant, chief nursing officer at Emory Healthcare; Mary Gullatte, James Hughes, professor of medicine and of global health, has been associate chief nursing officer at Emory University Hospital Midtown; elected president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Hughes and Lynn Sibley, associate professor at Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff is the first president who has come primarily from the field of public School of Nursing, were recently inducted into the American Academy health. At Emory, he serves as executive director of the Southeastern of Nursing. Center for Emerging Biologic Threats and director of the Program in Global Infectious Diseases. 10 magazine winter 2011 of Note Brain Trumps Hand in Stone-Age Study Was it the evolution of further suggesting links between the hand, or of the brain, that tool making and language enabled prehistoric toolmakers evolution. to make the leap from simple “The leap from stone flakes to flakes of rock to a sophisticated intentionally shaped hand axes hand axe? has been seen as a watershed in A new study finds that the human prehistory, providing our ability to plan complex tasks was first evidence for the imposition key. The research, published in of preconceived, human designs the Public Library of Science on the natural world,” he says. journal PLoS ONE, is the first Stout is an experimental to use a cyber data glove to archeologist who recreates pre- measure the hand movements historic tool making to study the of stone tool making precisely evolution of the human brain Ten Years in Tibet and compare the results to brain and mind. Subjects actually knap activation. tools from stone as activity in Emory’s Tibetan Studies Program celebrated its tenth anniversary this fall “Making a hand axe appears their brains is recorded. with a reunion of more than thirty alumni, scheduled during the visit of to require higher-order cogni- “Changes in the hand and Emory Presidential Distinguished Professor His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. tion in a part of the brain grip were probably what made it The spring semester program in Dharamsala, India, is the oldest continu- commonly known as Broca’s possible to make the first stone ous manifestation of the Emory-Tibet Partnership, founded in 1998 to bring area,” says Emory anthropolo- tools,” Stout says. “Increasingly, together the best of the Western and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions gist Dietrich Stout, coauthor of we’re finding that the earliest for their mutual enrichment. During the late 1990s, Dean Robert Paul, the study. It’s an area associated tools required visual and motor religion professor Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, leaders in the Institute for with hierarchical planning and skills, but were conceptually Buddhist Dialectics and the Center for International Programs Abroad, and language processing, he noted, simple.”—Carol Clark founding director Tara Doyle collaborated to develop the program. Since its inaugural year, the program has hosted 123 students from Emory and more than forty American and Canadian universities. During their time in Dharamsala, participants attend a private class taught by the l

ro Dalai Lama, who has supported the exchange from the beginning.

: ca “I can absolutely say the students who go on this program have some ut o of the most profound experiences of any students who study abroad,” says ; st Philip Wainwright, associate dean for international and summer programs, am pictured above with reunion attendees. rogr “Though it may sound over the top, I can’t even begin to imagine life where I am now without having spent time on the roof [of the Institute for Buddhist Dialectics] learning about Tibetan history, doing yoga exercises in n studies p the sunset with my fellow students, playing basketball and hanging out with

e tibeta my Tibetan friends, being packed like sardines for [the Dalai Lama] teach- h

y t ings, and gazing out at the Himalayas under a blanket of twinkling stars in tes r a clear sky,” wrote Samit Shah 03C, pictured above, on a blog dedicated to u o the Tibetan Studies Program. “The program inspired me to change direc- : c i n k

r tions away from biology and medicine and pursue economic development then and now: Emory anthropologist Dietrich Stout’s study of ancient cla alum and international relations.”—Dana Tottenham 98C tool making could lead to new understanding of the modern human brain.

Emory University Hospital named one of nation’s top hospitals First R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology selected For the thirteenth year, Emory University Hospital has been recognized The O. Wayne Rollins Foundation has established the R. Randall Rollins as one of the nation’s top hospitals by the National Research Corpora- Chair in Oncology in the School of Medicine with a gift of $2 million. tion’s Consumer Choice Awards. The award identifies hospitals chosen H. Jean Khoury, professor of hematology and medical oncology and by health care consumers as having the highest quality and image in director of the Division of Hematology, has been chosen as the first Rol- more than three hundred markets. lins Chair, which supports a focus on patient care and cancer research.

winter 2011 magazine 11 Campus beat Peer Review Student Honor Council helps uphold integrity for all

It was a freshman’s worst nightmare: just weeks into his first semester, he was accused of cheating on a Calculus II test. “It was actually the first test I took at Emory,” says the economics and mathematics double major, now a senior, who asked that his leading by example: Council members like Evan Dunn 10Ox 12C and cochair Molly Magruder 11C name be withheld. help uphold the Honor Code pledge, which all freshmen agree to by signing the banner shown here. After an anxiety-filled, semester-long investigation, Emory’s student Honor Council “Each one of these cases we take to heart,” Arp Molly Magruder 11C, the council’s cochair, ultimately found him innocent. “It was really says. “Every piece has an element of the human is aware that they’re not always the most terrible because it was hanging over my head experience. Obviously no one just says, ‘Okay, popular kids on campus. But, “among the all semester,” he says. “I just thought it was a today I am going to cheat,’ so there has to be an faculty, among some students who have been really slow process. It wasn’t very informative extenuating circumstance. We deal with all of found not guilty or even guilty, there’s a lot of and there was no one that I could really talk to those extenuating circumstances.” respect for what we do. We have a really strong about what to do.” The Honor Council is a somewhat mysteri- council, and our ability to be professional— Yet, while reflecting on his case and the ous group—“the heroes of the dark,” as Arp treating the accused student like a human difficult semester that ensued, the student calls them. “People know about the Honor being, showing them respect—has given us a remembers that council members were always Code,” says Honor Council member Evan pretty good reputation.” considerate, never accusatory. “They were ask- Dunn 10Ox 12C. “When they come in as Upholding that reputation are twenty coun- ing questions to kind of engage me and have freshmen, they all get an orientation on it, and cil members, two of whom are chairs and do me explain myself to prove myself innocent,” sign the pledge. Every syllabus they will get at not participate directly in investigations. Sans he says. “That made me feel like, yes, the stu- this college has a whole section devoted to it. robes and powdered wigs, five students weigh dents were on my side.” Before you sign half your tests, there’s an honor in on each reported case of honor code infrac- That is assuredly true, according to Meggan code pledge. But in regards to Honor Council tion, with one faculty adviser present to offer Arp, assistant dean of undergraduate educa- procedure, I understand how lots of people sanction suggestions and ensure that procedure tion, who oversees all Honor Council cases. d on’t k n ow.” is followed.

Want to know more about Emory’s scientific discoveries? Visit Butterfly Rx  e sciencecommons.blogspot.com m o

Certain species of butterflies may have developed their own weed, the larvae’s food plants, can reduce parasite infection in c o. version of stopping by the corner drugstore when they the monarchs,” says de Roode. “And we also have found that t need medicine. infected female butterflies prefer to lay their eggs on plants ho ckp Assistant Professor of Biology Jaap de Roode is investigat- that will make their offspring less sick, suggesting that mon- o

ing whether monarch butterflies can cure themselves and archs have evolved the ability to medicate their offspring.” ist y: fl their offspring of disease by using Few studies have been done on self-medication by animals, medicinal plants. The National but some scientists have theorized that the practice may be z; buttez; r Science Foundation awarded de more widespread than we realize.

Roode a $500,000 grant to further his “The results are also exciting because the behavior is trans- melt n a

research, which focuses on the behavior of generational,” says Thierry Lefevre, a postdoctoral fellow in ry monarchs infected with a protozoan parasite. de Roode’s lab. “While the mother is expressing the behavior,

“We have shown that some species of milk- only her offspring benefit.”—Carol Clark b honor:

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All rising juniors and seniors are eligible to tion of the honor code,” says Frank McDonald, Zzzzs submit an application for the Honor Council. chemistry professor and a volunteer faculty Of some eighty to ninety applicants, around adviser for the Honor Council. ten new students are chosen. “They go through A significant source of cases is students for lower risk a very rigorous election process, have to have whom English is a second language, who often close to perfect GPAs, and be leaders in the have difficulty learning the complex rules for of disease Emory community,” Arp says. “I think that’s using and citing sources. An educational sanc- Too little sleep may be bad for a testimony to the quality and caliber of our tion is being created to deal with cases in which more than just your concen- Honor Council students.” students genuinely don’t recognize fault. It will tration levels. John Ford, senior vice president and dean require the student to complete an online ESL A group of Emory and More- of Campus Life, believes it is important that training course to clarify citation and plagia- house researchers found that poor the Honor Council is made up primarily of rism guidelines. That way, Arp says, “We can sleep leads to inflammation in the body, which students, a practice he says is quite common. put a big-picture spin into our sanctioning and can be a risk factor for heart disease and “Students ‘overrepresented’ on the Honor not just have it be purely punitive.” stroke. Specifically, those who reported get- Council are in the best position to foster Dunn chose to get involved with the Honor ting six or fewer hours of sleep on a regular and maintain a culture of academic integrity Council for a simple reason. “Honestly, it’s the basis had higher levels of inflammatory mark- because they can be symbols, spokespersons, ethical thing to do,” he says. “If you think about ers, compared to those who reported six to and role models for other students,” he says. it, any educational institution that’s worth its nine hours of sleep. The Honor Council generally deals with salt has to have a certain integrity to the work The results come from 525 middle-aged some sixty to eighty-five cases each semester, they produce.” In fact, Dunn once reported a people who participated in the Morehouse- ranging anywhere from fraudulent registration friend and group project member for an honor Emory Partnership to Eliminate Cardiovascular to plagiarism to lying about a death in the fam- code offense. “It wasn’t vengeful,” he says, “it Health Disparities (META-Health) study, which ily in order to gain academic advantage. The fall was my job.” examined sleep quality and sleep duration and 2010 semester saw forty-six cases. Of the 419 And the most challenging part of that job, was codirected by leaders in cardiovascular cases reported during the past five years, 225 he adds, is not getting jaded by the number of research at both institutions. students were found guilty, seventy-three were cases the council deals with. “I’d rather let ten Acute sleep deprivation leads to an not guilty, and the rest were either dismissed or guilty people off than punish one innocent increased production of inflammatory hor- are pending. person. As crazy as some of these stories can be, mones and changes in blood vessel function, “The way I like to look at this, being an usually those are the ones that are true,” he says. but more research is needed on the physi- optimist, is that 99 percent of the students in “You have to remember that people who are ological effects of chronic lack of sleep, said any one year are not being accused of a viola- innocent do come before you.”—A.D.Y. Emory cardiology fellow Alanna Morris.

perfect pitch emory in the news

Midterms: Emory the faith experience of the Chilean Standout Student: The Associated political scientists and miners rescued last month. Emory Press, Georgia Public Broadcasting election experts Alan physician Kimberly Manning also and the Atlanta Journal-Consti- Abramowitz, Merle provided her expertise on the health tution highlighted Emory student Black, and Andra of the miners for CNN. and neuroscience and behavioral Gillespie weighed in biology major Rosy Gomez as one on the midterm elec- Fossil Finds: Emory paleontologist of three Georgia students to receive tions on a near-daily Anthony Martin’s find on prehistoric a scholarship from the Hispanic basis in outlets includ- wasp cocoons, as cited by eScience- Scholarship Fund, one of ten orga-

m Eyes on Emory: The visit in mid- ing NPR, Fox News, Georgia Public Commons, was among this year’s nizations picked to split President o c October by His Holiness the XIV Broadcasting, WABE, the New York “best fossil finds” by Wired Science. Obama’s $1.4 million Nobel Peace o. t

ho Dalai Lama and a series of events Times, the Atlanta Journal-Consti- Prize award.

ckp devoted to interfaith views on tution, the Associated Press, and Pencils Away: FOX News highlighted o happiness, compassion medita- the Los Angeles Times. chemistry senior lecturer Tracy Mor- Heal Thyself: Biologist Jaap de : ist tion, creativity and spirituality, and kin in a piece on teaching technolo- Roode’s research on the self-med-

z; sleep the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative After the Mine: “For a small gies and her use of “clickers” in the icating habits of monarch butter- attracted worldwide attention. More percentage, this is a genuinely life- classroom. Preetha Ram, associate flies (see opposite page) attracted n melt a than forty outlets provided cover- changing experience. . . . For most dean for pre-health and science, also notice with coverage by MSNBC, ry

: b age—including CNN, USA Today, people, it wanes, and they settle was interviewed about the global vir- CBC, Scientific American, Voice of NPR, the Associated Press, Voice of back into their old way of life,” tual study hall called “OpenStudy” America, LiveScience, and other America, WABE, and the Atlanta explained theology professor Tom she has helped develop in partner- outlets. dalai lama Journal-Constitution. Long to CNN’s Belief blog about ship with Georgia Tech.

winter 2011 magazine 13 of Note hear it To see the Shadowboxers performing “Like All the Rest  You’d Be” at Eddie’s Attic, go to emory.edu/magazine.

to; I think that’s almost as beautiful as it gets. But we are not like Lady Gaga pop. We are musicians and that’s our role. We aren’t figures. Scott: That was a big step for us, when we realized that it’s cool to be a pop band. Adam: We’re totally cool with making music that anyone can listen to and anyone can enjoy.

Who do you picture yourselves touring with? Adam: I think we’d all want to play Bonnaroo really bad. But that’s basically playing with everybody. Matt: I don’t know if Maroon 5 would have us. Scott: People say we sound like Maroon 5. We’ll take it.

If you could trade instruments, what would you choose? Matt: Bass. contenders: Matt Adam: Drums. Lipkins, Scott Schwartz, Scott: Bass. and Adam Hoffman are living the dream as the They’re Players Shadowboxers, a rising Top three most played on iTunes? pop band. Scott: TheFree Willy theme In the ring with The Shadowboxers song by Michael Jackson. “Cut the Cake,” by Average White Band, The morning after dazzling Emily Saliers 85C of the Indigo Girls with his musical and “Use Me” by Bill Withers. rendition of the Four Questions at a Passover dinner, Scott Schwartz 11C awoke with a Manischewitz hangover Matt: “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” by and his band’s big break. Schwartz had been “coaxed” into playing a few songs on the guitar later in the evening, D’Angelo. “F@#$ You,” by Cee Lo, which led Saliers to contact her manager. By June 2010, the Shadowboxers were officially signed. and “Creepin’, ” by Stevie Wonder. But before they were the Shadowboxers, they were just “Matt, Scott, and Adam,” says Matt Lipkins 11C. Adam: “Little Girl,” by Bill Frisell, Within the first week of their freshman year at Emory, Adam Hoffman 11C’s music library popped up on Lip- “The Wild Hunt,” by The Tallest kins’s shared iTunes when they listened, even though they were in separate dorms. When he saw Hoffman’s name Man on Earth, and “Empty” by under artists like Miles Davis and Weather Report, Lipkins sought him out to talk music. Meanwhile, Schwartz Ray LaMontagne. and Lipkins were in the same music theory class and wrote a song together for their final project. The three performed “Not Again” for the Emory Arts Competition in late fall of their sophomore year and won. What’s your group dynamic like Band members Hoffman (guitar and lead vocals), Lipkins (keyboard and lead vocals), Schwartz (guitar and outside the studio? lead vocals) and Ben Williams (bass) now play knockout shows all over Atlanta and opened for the Indigo Girls Adam: The three of us live at Emory’s Homecoming in September. When we sat down with the original trio, gloves off, to nosh and talk music together. at their favorite pizza joint, they didn’t pull any punches. Scott: It’s a sitcom. Matt and Adam are like The Odd Couple. What’s in the name? Who are your musical influences? Matt: I was listening to blues a Matt: Adam’s really good at Adam: Shadowboxing is warming Matt: We’re all over the place, lot when I was a kid. And then in organizing and keeping things on up for a fight. but we’ve got a bunch of common high school I got into soul music. track and creating structure, and Scott: It’s a very rhythmic thing. links. And that’s where we get our I’m . . . not as good at that. And it also has a connotation core sound. Can you characterize your sound? Adam: The three of us together of being a contender . . . you’re Scott: I’m a huge Michael Adam: We are a pop band. Most have a sense of humor that is very practicing, you’re preparing Jackson fan. My mom listened to bands would be terrified of ever unlike our music in that it’s not special for something. And those are a lot of Jackson Five; Temptations; saying that, but we use the term easily accessible. So whenever 11C/

elements of our sound. Earth, Wind, and Fire. pop in the sense of accessible. someone new enters the mix nn ell e Adam: Boxing feels like an old Adam: My dad was a huge There’s nothing wrong with having they’re always like a little bit . . . F sport. It’s old school somehow, and Zeppelin fan. And Rolling music that millions of people can Matt: Weirded out. h ew att all of us love old music. Stones . . . classic rock. understand and attach to and relate —Alyssa Young 11C M

14 magazine winter 2011 of Noteof Note Self-Evident Truths?

New book takes up old question of religion’s relationship to politics

The idea that all human beings have equal, inherent dignity is the cornerstone of international human rights, and a notion most of us take for granted in our day-to-day lives. We understand that we may Doh! Emory researchers scream obscenities at a fellow driver from behind the wheel of our own born human has this thing called discover the ‘Homer car, but if we were to leap out and, inherent dignity and is to be treated say, hit him over the head with a accordingly. The question is what Simpson’ gene bat, we would be violating not just worldview can make sense of that our societal laws but the inherent statement, and a worldview that Deleting a specific gene in mice can make them human dignity upon which those says the universe is meaningless smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain laws are based. has trouble accounting for this considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at the School In his latest book, The Political claim. Most religious worldviews of Medicine have found. Morality of Liberal Democracy, don’t have that trouble because Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember Robert W. Woodruff of their particular objects they have encountered and learn to navigate mazes Professor of Law theologies.” better than regular mice, suggesting that the gene’s presence Michael Perry begins Perry stops short limits some forms of learning and memory. with the question of of saying that no Since RGS14 appears to hold mice back mentally, Profes- why we invest one secular belief system sor of Pharmacology John Hepler says he and his colleagues another with inher- can support political have jokingly called it the “Homer Simpson gene.” ent dignity—and morality, but he RGS14, which is also found in humans, was identified specifically, the role strongly hints he more than a decade ago, and is primarily active in one partic- of religion in political has yet to encoun- ular part of the hippocampus—a region of the brain involved morality. It’s fairly ter one that does in consolidating new learning and forming memories. easy to see why peo- so to his satisfac- Without it, the ability of the gene-altered mice to recog- ple with a religious tion. The book, his nize objects previously placed in their cages was enhanced, worldview believe in eleventh, takes its compared to normal mice. They also learned more quickly protecting the basic place among his rich to navigate through a water maze to a hidden escape plat-

m rights of others, Perry argues: if one contributions to legal scholarship, form by remembering visual cues. o c believes that we all were created by “a powerful defense of liberal o. “A big question this research raises is why would we, t

ho God, then it is natural to perceive democracy and human rights—a or mice, have a gene that makes us less smart—a Homer ckp all as having equal worth and claim defense grounded on religious o Simpson gene?” Hepler says. “I believe that we are not

: ist to certain privileges. But it is not as faith,” says Lawrence A. Alexander, really seeing the full picture. RGS14 may be a key control ut easy to support a political morality Warren Distinguished Professor of gene in a part of the brain that, when missing or disabled, on

d based on a purely secular position. Law at the University of San Diego. knocks brain signals important for learning and memory n “It is not my point that one “Both for religious supporters of out of balance.” use a o has to be religious in order to take liberal democracy and human rights The lack of RGS14 doesn’t seem to hurt the altered mice,

o; m human rights seriously,” Perry cau- and for secular supporters, Perry’s but it is possible that they have had their brain functions tions. “That’s certainly not the case; book is must reading. But the changed in a way that researchers have yet to spot. o vide t in fact, a lot of nonreligious people provocative chapters on such topics “The pipe dream is that maybe you could find a com- ho are passionate about human rights, as religious freedom, abortion, pound that inhibits RGS14 or shuts it down,” Hepler says. ory p while a lot of religious people are same-sex unions, and the role of “Then, perhaps, you could enhance cognition.” human rights violators. The point courts provide additional reasons to The research was supported by the National Institutes of rry: em pe has to do with this claim that each read this book.” —P.P.P. Health.—Quinn Eastman

winter 2011 magazine 15 watch it To see the tango participants in action, of Note  go to emory.edu/magazine. Space- Flight Risk NASA awards Emory, MCG $7.6 million for space radiation research

Researchers from Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute and the Medical College of Georgia are launching a new cancer research initiative—literally. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a team of cutting a rug: Seniors at Wesley Woods practice the tango in a study to see whether dancing investigators from both institutions $7.6 mil- can help their movement and coordination. lion over five years to study how a component of space radiation may induce lung cancer. The award establishes a NASA Specialized Center of Research (NSCOR), consisting of a Prescription: Tango! team of scientists with complementary skills On a recent morning in Wesley Woods Seventy-seven-year-old Ed Sporleder, who work closely together to solve a set of Towers, chairs, tables, and walkers have been a Korean War veteran, says he is already research questions. Ya Wang, professor of radia- pushed to the side of the dining room and noticing improvement in his fellow dancers. tion oncology at Emory’s School of Medicine a dozen couples—student volunteers and “Some people who were having a tough time and Winship Cancer Institute, is director of the seniors—are dancing to a spicy Latin beat. walking are now able to walk with coordina- NSCOR at Emory. Atlanta Veterans Affairs researcher Mad- tion and larger steps to propel themselves Interplanetary space travel could put astro- eleine Hackney, who has professional experi- forward,” Sporleder says. “The Emory volun- nauts in conditions where they are chronically ence in ballroom dance, jazz, theater dance, teers are marvelous, and everyone is having a exposed to types of radiation not normally and ballet, is investigating whether regularly wonderful time.” encountered on earth. One of these is high dancing the tango can improve wellness in Ninety-two-year-old Barney Schoenberg energy-charged particles (HZE), which results seniors with limited or declining eyesight. and his wife, Jean, say the shared exercise has in complex damage to DNA and a broader stress Dancing the tango is much like walking, helped them improve their health and make response by the affected cells and tissues. but with more calculated, precise, and inten- new friends: “It’s a nice way to spend part of There is no epidemiological data for human tional steps and with the safety of a partner, the day, and it is definitely helping us both.” exposure to HZE particles, although some esti- says Hackney. “There is evidence that it may Upon completion of the ten-week pro- mates have been made studying uranium miners help frail, older individuals with sensory motor gram, the participating seniors’ health and and Japanese atomic bomb survivors, says Wang. impairments, in terms of balance, gait, and skills will be reevaluated and compared with Animal experiments show that HZE particle coordination,” she says. their pretests. exposure induces more tumors than other forms of radiation such as X-rays or gamma rays. Because it is a leading form of cancer, “The information generated by this project of Radiation Oncology, says, “The center will lung cancer is included among increased will be critical for estimating risks and estab- place Emory and the state of Georgia squarely risks from radiation even though astronauts lishing countermeasures for cancers associated on the map as a place of international impor- do not smoke. However, the risk remains with long-term space travel. In addition, new tance within the handful of NSCORs in the unclear because the dose of HZE astronauts are insights into cancer resulting from all types of world dedicated to the study of cancer and expected to receive is very low, Wang says. radiation exposure, including those found on space radiation exposure.” The Emory-MCG researchers will probe earth, are likely to emerge from this project,” New NSCOR awards are also being made whether the broader stress response induced says Paul Doetsch, professor of radiation to Duke University and University of Texas by HZE particles amplifies cancer risk. Inves- oncology and biochemistry at Winship and Southwestern Medical Center on the topic of tigators will collaborate with physicists at associate director of NSCOR. space radiation-induced lung cancer. n de Brookhaven National Laboratory to gather Walter Curran, executive director of Additional information is available at or nn b nn information on HZE’s effects. Winship and chair of Emory’s Department NASA.gov.—Quinn Eastman a

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Diaper Duty Techno-History With the help of thirty-two babies Laurabeth Goldsmith 14C talks to her grandfather all the and more than five thousand used time, but not usually at Emory’s Center for Interactive Technologies diapers, Emory researchers have (ECIT) using Skype, along with her entire freshman seminar class. developed a simple, accurate The study, conducted by As part of the class Film and the Holocaust, Dorot Professor of way to measure estrogen levels researchers at Emory, the Uni- Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies Deborah Lipstadt showed in infants. versity of North Carolina–Chapel students Deborah Oppenheimer’s 2000 documentary, Into the Arms of Surprisingly little is known Hill, and the University of Virginia Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, about the rescue operation that about hormone levels during Health System, Charlottes- ferried children from Germany to England to escape the Nazis before infancy. Previous research has ville, included fifteen boys and World War II. focused on the measurement of seventeen girls, ages seven days When Goldsmith mentioned that her grandfather had been one of hormones in blood, urine, and to fifteen months. The infants’ the approximately ten thousand Jewish children saved by Kindertrans- saliva. But because of the dif- parents retained soiled diapers for port, Lipstadt arranged for the class to talk with Henry Goldsmith, who ficulties of repeatedly taking such twenty-four hours, which were escaped along with his brother and now lives in Florida. “The German samples from healthy infants, few then collected, frozen and stored storm troopers data have been available. at -80°C, and analyzed. knocked on the The less-invasive approach “We understand very little door where we lived of collecting fecal samples from about the hormonal dynamics that and they demanded cotton diapers provided accurate occur during early development entrance,” he told stu- measures of levels of estradiol, precisely because we lack a reliable dents during the call. a type of estrogen, reported way to track hormones in neonates “It was a scary night senior author and Samuel Candler and very young children,” says and after that night Dobbs Professor of Anthropology James Robert McCord Professor my parents decided Michelle Lampl in Frontiers in Sara Berga, chair of the Depart- we had to get out of Systems Biology. ment of Gynecology and Obstet- G e r m a ny.” The importance of estradiol’s rics. “Having a way to track this “It was incredible role in postnatal development of critical hormone that influences to be able to connect the body, brain, and behavior has behavior and the development of the concepts and emotions in the film to a specific person, my grandpa, in recent years raised concerns many important tissues, including and it was great that the whole class was able to ask specific questions,” about environmental estrogens the brain, will allow us to under- said Goldsmith, a double major in religion and international studies. and their impact on people’s long- stand normal. This really is a great “This was the first time that I have had Skype used in a classroom, and it term health. leap forward.”—Robin Tricoles really added to our discussion.”—M.J.L.

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winter 2011 magazine 17 meditation is a process of familiarizing, dynamic Forces  cultivating, or enhancing certain skills.” —Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi Mind Over Matters Studies show that for children and adults, a calm mind can help lead to a healthy body

When Brendan Ozawa-de Silva first walked into the classroom of five- to eight- year-olds at Atlanta’s Paideia School, he quickly despaired of ever achieving his objective: getting the children to meditate. Noisy and excitable, the kids could barely sit still, much less approach the state of utter calm and concentration that is central to the Buddhist tradition. But Ozawa-de Silva captured their attention by speaking an ancient language that every child on earth can understand: a story. He told them about the sweater he was wearing, describing how his father gave it to him and explaining that it makes him happy because it is warm and makes him think of his father. Then he asked the children to consider the other reasons why he is able to enjoy the sweater—where it came from, who made it, and how it traveled to him. The kids rattled off answers like popcorn on a hot stove: wool, sheep, trucks, roads, stores, people. “Finally, they shouted out, ‘It never ends. You need the whole world!’, ” Ozawa-de Silva, finding the quiet: Even among children, the practice of thinking kindly about others can help bring about more positive emotions and interactions. an Emory PhD candidate, told His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in his research presentation during the Dalai Lama’s visit to the University in October. “I really think it helps the kids to center,” says Jona- And just like that, the children understood—at least for than Petrash, who coteaches a class of five- to seven- a moment—the Buddhist concept of universal intercon- year-olds at Paideia. “We have tried to make it part of nectedness that undergirds compassion meditation. our daily routine. There is a real calm, settled feeling in The pilot program at Paideia, which Ozawa-de Silva our classroom, with deeper and richer conversations. codirected with graduate student Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, The kids are better able to show empathy, better able to is part of an ongoing series of Emory research initiatives show compassion.” studying the effects of meditation on physical and mental Ozawa-de Silva was just one of a series of research- Geshe health. The protocol for the program was developed by ers who described their work and findings to the Dalai Lobsang Tenzin Negi Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, director of the Emory-Tibet Lama during his three-day visit, which featured a Partnership and codirector of the Emory Collaborative for number of high-profile public events, including a panel Contemplative Studies, using Cognitively Based Com- discussion on creativity among His Holiness, Pulitzer passion Training—a technique drawn from Buddhism, Prize–winning author Alice Walker, and film star and but without the spiritual elements. Secular compassion Buddhist advocate Richard Gere. meditation is based on a thousand-year-old Tibetan Bud- During the daylong conference on compassion medi- ory : em : i g dhist practice called lojong, which uses a cognitive, analytic tation where Ozawa-de Silva spoke about the Paideia e se r ; n ;

approach to challenge a person’s unexamined thoughts and pilot, Charles Raison, associate professor in Emory’s m o emotions toward other people. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences c o. t

The practice is designed to help participants recognize and clinical director of Emory’s Mind-Body Program, ho on: jack kea the interdependence of all creatures and cultivate compas- presented findings from another study involving youth in ckp o Charles Raison ais sion towards others, whether family, friends, or far-flung Atlanta’s foster-care system. o; r strangers. The comprehension of shared suffering is thought “We know that children who are maltreated experi- o vide to reduce negative emotions, like anger and resentment, and ence devastating consequences, such as abnormal levels of t ho on: iston: meditati help nurture positive ones, like kindness and gratitude. stress hormones and inflammation,” Rasion says. “Psychoso- p

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cial stress is also a risk factor for depression and anxiety.” Raison and Negi led a 2005 study of college students that indicated that meditation can help reduce stress levels and physical responses like inflammation. Applying the same principles, his team did a baseline assessment of seventy-two children, ages thirteen to seventeen, in the foster-care system, asking a series of questions and testing their saliva for stress hormones. Afterward, half received training in compassion meditation for six weeks. When they were tested again, Raison says, the results were mixed: there was virtually no difference in their self-reporting, but their stress hormones and inflammation markers were shown to be lower. “There seem to be measurable benefits to our biological systems from compassion meditation,” Raison says. In a previous clinical intervention, six teenage girls in a foster home were trained in a six-week compassion meditation pro- shared moment: The 2010 Johnson Medalists sing “Lift Every Voice and gram aimed at helping them cultivate inner strength, self-esteem, Sing,” written by Johnson himself, at the ceremony. and hope. They did report benefits from meditation, including improved interaction with others; one girl told Dodson-Lavelle that New Legacies Honored the training transformed her relationship with her estranged adop- tive mother. Ozawa-de Silva and Dodson-Lavelle hope that this It is always meaningful to be • Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot work will lead to training for educators and caregivers to implement recognized for one’s work, but Professor of Modern Jewish and the practice of compassion meditation in a range of settings. when the award bestowed carries Holocaust Studies at the Tam Insti- Raison also reported to the Dalai Lama on a new study now the name of a personal hero, it can tute at Emory. under way, designed to test the value of meditation in reducing the be especially gratifying. • Joseph E. Lowery 10H, former types of physical and emotional responses to stress that increase That happened for Justice Leah president of the Southern Christian disease risk. The Compassion and Attention Longitudinal Medi- Ward Sears 80L when she received Leadership Conference, still one of tation Study (CALM) will help scientists determine how people’s a 2010 James Weldon Johnson the leading civil rights organizations bodies, minds, and hearts respond to stress and which specific Medal at a ceremony hosted by in the nation. meditation practices are better at turning down those responses. the Johnson Institute in November • Robert (Bob) P. Moses, “Data show that people who practice meditation may reduce their at The Carter Center. The medals founder of the Algebra Project. inflammatory and behavioral responses to stress, which are linked honor the legacy and accomplish- Moses was a pivotal organizer for to serious illnesses including cancer, depression, and heart disease,” ments of Johnson, the legendary the civil rights movement as field says Raison, who is principal investigator of the study. writer, journalist, civil rights leader, secretary for the Student Nonviolent TheC ALM study has three different components. The main musician, and humanitarian. Coordinating Committee (SNCC). component, which is funded by a federal grant, compares com- “[Johnson is] a great figure to • The late Sondra K. Wilson, a passion meditation with two other interventions—mindfulness me,” Sears told the Emory Wheel in scholar of Johnson and the National training and a series of health-related lectures. Participants are an interview. “To have his light shed Association for the Advancement randomized into one of the three interventions. on me—it’s such an honor; it’s very of Colored People. Wilson was A second component involves the use of an electronically overwhelming.” executor of the estate of Grace Nail activated recorder (called the EAR) that is worn by the participants Sears is an Emory trustee and and James Weldon Johnson and before beginning and after completion of the meditation interven- a partner in the Atlanta law firm the founder of the James Weldon tions. The recorder will be used to evaluate the effect of the study Schiff Hardin. In 1992, she became Johnson Memorial Foundation. interventions on the participants’ social behavior by periodically the first woman and the youngest • Ambassador Andrew J. Young, recording snatches of ambient sounds from their daily lives. person to be appointed to Georgia’s former Atlanta mayor and US con- The third component involves neuroimaging of the partici- Supreme Court; from 2005 to 2009, gressman, and a top aide to Martin pants to determine if compassion meditation and mindfulness she served as chief justice of the Luther King Jr. He is the found- meditation have different effects on brain architecture and the Georgia Supreme Court. ing principal and cochair of Good function of empathic pathways of the brain. In addition to Sears, the Johnson Works International of Atlanta. Mastering meditation takes dedication and time. “Meditation Institute honored six other figures “The Johnson Medal Award is not just about sitting quietly,” says Negi. “Meditation is a process whose achievements in civil rights Ceremony is an occasion when of familiarizing, cultivating, or enhancing certain skills, and you and humanitarian service reflect a we may reclaim and reaffirm our can think of attentiveness and compassion as skills. Meditation deep and unwavering commitment commitment to the greatest social practices designed to foster compassion may impact physiological to civil and human rights: movement of the twentieth cen- pathways that are modulated by stress and relevant to disease.” • Lucy Cline Huie 39Ox 42G, tury,” says Byrd, offering a chance Raison and Negi hope to show that centuries of wisdom about cofounder of HOPE, a civil rights to “pause to reflect upon our z nurturing the inner mind, combined with Western science about project whose purpose was to relationship to a living history that desegregate public schools in Geor- has provided us with a knowledge n melt a n how the body and brain interact, can have a positive impact on ry b personal well-being and health.—P.P.P. gia in the 1940s and 1950s. of our condition.”

winter 2011 magazine 19 Teaching students to challenge assumptions, embrace ambiguity, and step outside their comfort zones by jim auchmutey

20 magazine winter 2011 n a sunny autumn Saturday, half a dozen Emory undergraduates climb into a van and drive six miles east to Clarkston, an Atlanta suburb where the US government has settled thousands of refugees in warrens of time-worn apartments. The van is headed for Brannon Hill, a condo- minium complex teetering between despair and hope. Because of the real estate bust, boarded-up units almost outnum- ber ones bustling with Somali and Ethiopian families trying to get a foothold in a new country. None of the Emory students grew up in a place quite like this. After a brief consultation with the manager, the ethics professor in charge of the group, Edward Queen, straps a gas-powered blower on his back and noisily goes to work. His charges follow with rakes and lawn bags. As they scoop up the leaves and pine straw, they look up occasionally and see children smiling and waving at them from the balconies. After a while, a resident drives up and watches the scene through the open window of his car. He catches a student’s attention and asks an obvious question: “What are you doing?” “Community service,” answers Mariangela Jordan 12C, a junior from Romania. The man seems puzzled. “You’re on probation?” “Oh, no,” Jordan assures him, “we’re doing community s e r v i c e .” “But you’re on probation, right?” The man can’t seem to believe that normal young people would spend their spare time cleaning up someone else’s property unless a judge had ordered them to. Talking about the exchange later, Queen can’t resist a quip. “Maybe,” he deadpans, “we should wear orange jump suits next time.”

Students in the Ethics and Servant Leadership Program spruce up the grounds of a complex inhabited largely by refugees. Photos by Bryan Meltz.

winter 2011 magazine 21 he Brannon Hill excursion was one of The ethics center is the nexus of a broader effort that many volunteer opportunities during takes countless forms and reaches every corner of the Emory Cares International Service Day, campus. It starts at freshman orientation, when incoming the annual day of community service orga- students hear a presentation about the center and the Uni- nized by the Emory Alumni Association. versity’s ambition to develop character as well as intellect. This particular group was eager to enlist: The center’s seven resident faculty members and thirty- They’re part of the Ethics and Servant one affiliated professors infuse ethics into courses across all Leadership (EASL) program at the University’s Center for of Emory’s schools. They collaborate with Candler, which Ethics. One of the reasons they applied for EASL is because weaves a rich ethics curriculum throughout its theology they wanted to get off campus and encounter people strug- courses, and lecture at Goizueta Business School and the gling with real problems in the real world. School of Law, both of which have their own vigorous “That’s the whole idea: to get us out of our comfort zone,” (and required) practice-specific ethics and professionalism says a member of the yard crew, Hannah Rogers 12C, a training. And they share the heavy responsibility of ethics junior from Fayetteville, Georgia. education in the schools of medicine, nursing, and public The center, which recently celebrated its twentieth health; the School of Medicine has its own diverse ethics anniversary, is one of the most significant—and misunder- curriculum with deep roots in the center. stood—institutions And there are more unusual examples: at Winship at Emory. Significant Cancer Institute, an ethicist on the research team fosters because its purpose a vibrant ethics program in oncology research; Emory lies at the heart of recently launched a master of arts in bioethics degree pro- how the Univer- gram; and there is a formal public health-focused partner- sity envisions itself ship being established among the ethics center, the CDC, and undertakes its and the Rollins School of Public Health. Not to mention educational mis- the more civic and creative outreach programs such as EASL sion. Misunderstood and Ethics and the Arts, which brings artists to campus to because outsiders discuss works that explore moral questions. sometimes have Most respected research universities offer an ethics cur- trouble imagining riculum these days. One of the factors that set Emory apart, what an ethics center its leaders believe, is the University’s commitment to ethics is. Does it enforce the as an institutional value. honor code? Do they “I noticed it immediately when I started speaking with sit around pontificat- people about coming here,” President James Wagner says. ing about lofty issues “In my initial interviews and in reading the literature, I was of good and bad? impressed by the unusual facility this University has with Not quite, says the vocabulary of values. I decided to test it.” Director Paul Root Wagner spoke with about eighty people during the lengthy Wolpe, who is job interview process. He asked every one of them about happy to explain Emory’s concern for ethics. Some mentioned the Univer- his specialty to lay sity’s roots in the Methodist Church, while others stressed its audiences. modern involvement with human rights issues. “Not a single “People tend to person dismissed the idea,” he says. “Their attitude was: ‘Of misunderstand what course. How could it be any other way?’ ” ethics really is,” he Soon after Wagner arrived, the University crafted a new says. “Most people vision statement, a painstaking exercise that prompted think it’s questions of extended discussions about Emory’s values and priorities. Edward Queen what’s right or wrong, what’s correct or incorrect behavior. Later research found that only one other university among In fact, the message we’re trying to communicate is much eighteen top-ranked institutions considered Emory’s peers deeper. The decisions you make every day are informed used the word “ethics” in its statement: Notre Dame. Emory by a set of principles and values—what I call an ethical has embraced the word as well, describing itself in the fin- sensibility. Only when you examine that sensibility and ished declaration as “an inquiry-driven, ethically engaged, challenge your beliefs and assumptions can you come to a and diverse community.” mature understanding of ethics.” “This is not to say that Emory is more ethical,” Wagner Wolpe is speaking in his office at the center, which shares cautions. “But it does indicate what we expect of ourselves.” a sparkling new building with Candler School of Theol- That expectation was tested in 2009 when the worst

ogy. A nationally known authority in the field—he serves recession in decades forced the administration to make staff special as NASA’s first bioethicist—he came to Emory in 2008 after reductions. Wagner summoned Wolpe to his office. e r/ more than two decades of teaching bioethics at the Univer- “I had no idea why he wanted to see me,” Wolpe remem- ony be nn ony sity of Pennsylvania. bers. “He handed me an article about the ethical consider- t

22 magazine winter 2011 “People tend to misunderstand what ethics really is. Most people think it’s questions of what’s right or wrong, what’s correct or incorrect behavior. In fact, the message we’re trying to communicate is much deeper.” —Paul Root Wolpe

ations of layoffs, and we spent an hour discussing the issues. arts to medicine and engineering. “This is one of the most Kathy Kinlaw 79C 85T He was very concerned that a difficult situation be handled holistic centers of its type in the country,” says James Fowler, and Paul Root Wolpe as ethically as possible. I walked out impressed that he a retired theology professor who served as the center’s first wanted to meet with me at a time like that, when most uni- full-time director for more than a decade. versity presidents probably would be calling in their lawyers.” Since the center was founded, the number of university ethics institutions has proliferated. At the first meeting of olleges have been teaching ethics since the ethics association in 1991, perhaps twenty centers were the dawn of higher education. For most of represented; now more than a hundred attend. “They started that time, the subject was the purview of popping up like mushrooms in the nineties,” Schrag says. theology schools or philosophy depart- John Stuhr, chair of the Department of Philosophy, ments. That began to change in the sixties helped launch one of those centers in his last post at Penn- and seventies, as medical advances such as sylvania State University. Although he obviously values his organ transplants and enhanced end-of- chosen discipline, he wonders whether its recent popularity life care raised new moral complications. has something to do with academic fashion. “At the risk of “The explosion in interest really started with bioethics,” sounding cynical, it’s easier to secure funding when you’ve says Brian Schrag, director of the Association for Practi- established a center,” he says. “There’s also a little bit of cal and Professional Ethics, an umbrella group for ethics keeping up with the Joneses. If everyone has ethics centers, centers, at Indiana University. “After the Tuskegee Study was shouldn’t you have one? And if you don’t, does that mean revealed, there was a rising concern about medical research you aren’t concerned with ethics?” ethics. Then Watergate made people wonder about the Stuhr also has reservations about the fondest goal of ethics of lawyers. And there were always business scandals. ethics education: to mold ethical adults. There’s a limit, he It made universities think they should start applying these believes, to what a university can do. ancient theories of ethics to practical experience.” “It’s not realistic to think that a single class can erase The Hastings Center, an independent institution widely habits that formed over eighteen or twenty years,” he says. regarded as the first bioethics center, was founded in 1969. “Aristotle points out the difference between knowing good Other pioneering centers soon followed at Georgetown and doing good. We all know what he means. I imagine it’s University in 1971 and Indiana University in 1972. relatively easy to pass the Georgia driving exam, but passing The field remained sparsely populated when Emory it doesn’t mean you won’t be a terrible driver. Universities began to consider an ethics center in 1990. President are like that: We’re very good on the theoretical side, but James Laney, a Christian ethicist by training, started the translating it into practice is much harder.” conversation. But as Wolpe pointed out, having an ethical sensibility “He invited a group of us over to Lullwater for a series of means more than simply knowing right from wrong. Fac- meetings to brainstorm the idea,” recalls the center’s associ- ulty at the Center for Ethics take the approach that although ate director, Kathy Kinlaw 79C 85T. “There was a general a student’s character may have taken root when he arrives, feeling that we could do more to prepare students as they there is still value in teaching, exploring, and applying ethics went out into the world. The health sciences faculty were as a discipline. on

t strong participants.” “Of course you can mold ethical adults,” says Queen, Unlike many centers, Emory’s was meant to be cross- who tries to do just that as director of the Ethics and y h i n y ka disciplinary, touching on everything from religion and the Servant Leadership program. “If we think we can mold a

winter 2011 magazine 23 mathematician, why couldn’t we mold an ethical adult? To me, education is all about the formation of individuals and citizens. But you’re not going to do it well unless Policy in Practice you accept it as part of your mission.”

Like all research universities, Emory perches on a bridge that spans a rushing tor- f all the center’s initiatives, perhaps rent of ethical questions and quandaries. But a wide web of safety nets woven none touches students as pro- across the institution is designed to protect the integrity of scholarship, research, foundly as EASL. teaching, and health care—and keep individuals from tumbling over the side. “It brings people together from across the University to learn The Institutional Review Board (IRB) In 1994, Emory spearheaded the about ethical leadership,” says the is the primary body charged with over- creation of the Health Care Ethics Reverend Lyn Pace 02T, who par- seeing research protocol. Its purpose Consortium of Georgia, a statewide ticipated ten years ago and went on to become chaplain is to “protect the rights and welfare network of representatives from forty- at Oxford College. of humans participating as subjects in three health organizations that share “I think about my experiences at Emory all the time,” research,” ensuring compliance with a common interest in bringing ethics says Ali Lutz 04T, who coordinates operations in Haiti federal regulations for the protec- analysis to patient care and organiza- for Partners in Health, a medical nonprofit. She tried out tion of research subjects. The IRB tional issues. The consortium works her career path as an EASL intern with the Georgia Justice administers two committees for bio- with Georgia lawmakers on legislation Project, which provides legal services and support to medical research, totaling about one affecting health care ethics and offers poor families. hundred members from across and workshops, continuing education, and “That’s where I learned the distinction between charity outside Emory, that meet three times a on-site consultation for professionals and working for a more just society,” she says. “Charity is month; and one committee for social, across the field. Emory’s Center for Eth- serving other people because they’re in great need. Work- humanist, and behavioral research that ics houses and staffs the consortium. ing for a more just society is about understanding why meets monthly. people are suffering in the first place, and taking responsi- All faculty involved in sponsored bility for it.” Anyone who has access to protected research must work with the University EASL has two components. Lutz participated in the patient information, whether at Emory Conflict ofI nterest (COI) Office. summer internship, in which thirty students are placed Healthcare or Emory University, must Established in 2008, the office was cre- with Atlanta nonprofits, governmental agencies, or follow federal and state privacy laws, ated to oversee and manage potential socially responsible businesses. They work off campus including the Health Insurance Porta- conflicts of interest for faculty and staff and spend one afternoon a week in the classroom. Pace bility and Accountability Act (HIPAA). members engaged in research and was part of the academic-year program, known as the other professional activities. Forum. Fifteen to twenty students, receiving no stipend Human subjects are not the only ones or course credit, meet weekly to learn about values- protected; Yerkes National Primate In 2009, Emory’s School of Medicine based leadership and ethical decision making. They Research Center is fully accredited by issued a new, comprehensive policy on eventually break into smaller groups to pursue their own the Association for Assessment and industry relations to further strengthen service projects. Accreditation of Laboratory Animal and clarify University conflict-of-inter- “It’s a shared intellectual journey focused on recogniz- Care International, regarded as the est guidelines. In a climate of increasing ing our responsibilities to the wider world,” Queen says. gold seal of approval for the humane complexity when it comes to federal This year’s Forum is typical: sixteen students from a care of laboratory animals. funding and the relationship between variety of backgrounds and interests. The group starts academic research and industry, the the year with a team-building retreat on the Nantahala Emory has an Internal Audit Division new rules were aimed at managing River in North Carolina. Then it settles into its weekly whose mission is to provide inde- these relationships and overseeing (and meetings, where the members learn to examine the pendent, objective evaluation of in some cases, limiting) the financial assumptions they grew up with. institutional operations and processes benefit to scientists from activities such One of the first sessions deals with ethics and in both Emory University and Emory as public speaking, education, and identity. Carlton Mackey, EASL’s assistant director, asks Healthcare. The division provides start-up companies. students to make a list of twenty things that come to routine audits, consultations, and mind to complete the phrase “I am . . . ” Then they fill advisory services to University man- All Emory College students are required out a similar list of attributes for different groups: poor agement. It also oversees the Emory to sign the Honor Code pledge in their people, white people, African Americans, and so forth. Trust Line, a whistleblower hotline first year, agreeing that they will uphold They compare the lists. staffed by an outside company that the highest standards of academic “What people say about themselves usually doesn’t any Emory employee is encouraged to integrity and will not participate in match what others say about their group,” Mackey says. “I call to report suspicion of theft, fraud, cheating in any form. For more on the ask them why, and they’ll say, ‘It’s because they don’t know waste or abuse, conflict of interest, or Honor Code and the University’s Honor me.’ At that point, I don’t really have to say much else.” billing misconduct. Council, see the story on page 12. In the next sessions, Queen introduces the students to critical ethical thinking. He asks them to consider a

24 magazine winter 2011 hypothetical situation, a classic ethical dilemma called the trolley problem. In its simplest version, a runaway train is barreling down the tracks toward five people. You notice a switch that could divert the train to another track, where it would strike one person. Do you flip the switch and kill one human being? Or do you stand by and watch five die? “Most people say they’d pull the switch,” Queen says. Naturally, the plot thickens. In the second version of the dilemma, you’re watching the runaway train approach the same hapless quintet from a bridge directly overhead. Only there’s no switch this time. Instead, you’re standing next to an extremely overweight man, and you realize— to your horror—that you could push him onto the track and derail the train. It’s the same “Oh, there’s more to it than that,” someone counters. Carlton Mackey at moral calculus—saving five lives at the sacrifice of one—yet “Yeah, I guess we can feel good about ourselves for WonderRoot most people say they couldn’t do it. Shoving a man to his another year,” another one jokes, drawing glares from the death is harder than flipping a switch. back seat. “I couldn’t decide what to do,” says Leyla Sokullu 14C, So what did the students take away from those three from Turkey. “It was frustrating, knowing that you might kill hours of volunteer work? And what, exactly, does it have to five people because you couldn’t make up your mind.” do with ethics? The point of the exercise, Queen explains, is to grasp the Lauren Henrickson 13C has been mulling it over. complexities of ethical decision making. “Hard decisions “On one hand, we were just raking up some leaves, and ought to be undertaken with humility and ambiguity. We that’s pretty small scale,” she says. “But on the other hand, it take our best-considered position depending on what we was making us more aware of the refugee community, and know and understand, but we ought to be willing to change that could lead to something that isn’t small scale.” our minds if we’re disabused with new information or a bet- She pauses and adds another thought that suggests she is ter argument. We don’t know the mind of God.” learning one of the most fundamental lessons in ethics, not The trolley problem is only the beginning. Soon the to mention life: considering other viewpoints. “I hope our students are discussing problems that are anything but being there had some effect on the residents. I keep thinking hypothetical: homelessness, human rights, medical research, about a girl I noticed peeking at us from a balcony. I hope the environment, the plight of refugees. she isn’t too young to remember that these people who were not part of her community came in to help, that someone t’s Monday night, time for the Forum. This week e l s e c a re d .” the students aren’t gathering in a conference For Courtney Bell 12C, the day was worthwhile—if only room at the ethics center; they’re piling into cars as an exercise in consciousness raising. and vans for another field trip. Their destination: “When you come to college,” she says, “you’re so into WonderRoot, a community arts organization in these books and papers and exams that sometimes you for- southeast Atlanta that partners with the center. get there’s an outside world. I don’t remember the last time The director leads the students on a quick tour I read the news because I’m always studying. So the day we of the facility, a converted bungalow that manages to fit raked leaves was awesome, because it took me out of Emory galleries, performance space, a darkroom, and a recording and into Atlanta and into the world.” studio under one humble roof. That yearning for involvement is why she gravitated to It has been only a couple of days since some of these stu- the ethics center in the first place. In fact, it’s one of the main dents did yard work at the refugee complex, and they’re still reasons she came to Emory. “We have a duty to promote the wondering what to make of the experience. During the ride greater good,” she says. “That’s part of the culture here.” on

t to and from WonderRoot, a spirited discussion breaks out. “I think it’s kind of a publicity thing for Emory,” one Jim Auchmutey, a former reporter for the Atlanta Journal- y h i n y Constitution, is an author and freelance writer living in Atlanta. ka person says.

winter 2011 magazine 25 An American Warrior The honorable life and untimely death of Colonel Ted Westhusing

by Mary J. Loftus  Photos by Kay Hinton

26 magazine winter 2011 winter 2011 magazine 27 An atmosphere of trust . . . where guile is minimized, if not eliminated, is a requirement for excellence internal to the warfighting unit. —Ted Westhusing, Journal of Military Ethics

lready a lieutenant colonel in the army when he came Memphis, and he came walking up to my bal- to Emory, Ted Westhusing 03PhD used to jog around cony, this jarhead guy with no hair and flowers. campus with his backpack filled with bricks so he wouldn’t He had this smile, and I hugged him and said, “get soft.” An honor graduate of West Point, he was fluent It’s so nice to finally meet you. We went to the in Russian and classical Greek, and was working toward a barbecue festival down at the river, and lunch doctorate of philosophy with an emphasis on military ethics. turned into dinner, and then he was going to A“There are so many good stories about Teddy,” says his thesis adviser, Honduras for six months. But he wrote really Professor of Philosophy Nicholas Fotion. “Most people, it takes them two good letters. He was so different than anyone years to write their I had ever dated, and so genuine.” dissertation. It took Westhusing returned to the states and him from September became division operations officer for the to April. He was such Eighty-Second Airborne based at Fort Bragg, a dedicated, well- North Carolina. He and Michelle married in organized guy. He 1988. would say—he used He enjoyed the camaraderie of military military lingo, even to service, but missed the intellectual rigor of describe his academic a university. In 2000, he enrolled in Emory’s work—that he was on graduate school, moving with Michelle and a mission.” their three young children—ten-year-old Westhusing set Sarah, five-year-old Aaron, and one-year-old and pursued goals Anthony—to Atlanta. with a hard-driving “Emory was the only school with the dedication, appar- emphasis on military ethics and the ancients ent even at a young that Ted was looking for,” Michelle says. “He age. One of seven took it and applied it to his daily life by the children, he was born code of honor he learned at West Point.” in Dallas on November 17, 1960, and grew up A “soldier’s soldier,” Ted Westhusing 03PhD in Tulsa, where he was starting point guard on (above) was committed to the mission of training his high school’s basketball team, often going Competition and cooperation are often in Iraqi forces to take over their own security and conflict . . . and the bridge between the two took leave from his teaching position at West to school early to practice his jump shot. As Point to serve in Baghdad. Michelle Westhusing a National Merit Scholar, Westhusing had his is honor. (previous page) continues to grapple with the choice of colleges, and decided on the United —Ted Westhusing’s doctoral dissertation absence of her husband and “best friend.” States Military Academy at West Point. A devout Catholic, he thrived in an environment that emphasized integrity, virtue, and esthusing’s dissertation was self-discipline. He served on the Cadet Honor titled, “The Competitive Committee as senior honor captain, enforcing and Cooperative Aretai the code that a cadet “will not lie, cheat, steal, or within the American Warf- tolerate those who do,” and graduated third in ighting Ethos,” with aretai, his class in 1983. Westhusing’s father had served from the Greek, meaning virtues or excellences. in the navy, and his grandfather in the army W“Born to be a warrior, I desire these answers during World War II; he had his mind set on not just for philosophical reasons, but for following them into military service. self-knowledge,” he wrote in the opening to the After graduation, he became a platoon 352-page exploration of military honor. leader, received Special Forces training, and A student at Emory at the time, Jeff Jackson was stationed in Italy, South Korea, and Hon- 04C, remembers asking Westhusing for advice y duras. He met his wife, Michelle, through a about joining the military after taking a class mutual friend while he was overseas, and they the lieutenant colonel cotaught. Jackson went ng famil ng

wrote letters back and forth for three and a half on to serve in Afghanistan with the Army usi h

years, sweetly courting during his furloughs. Reserves. Westhusing, he says, was “a very est

“My friends tease me that the first time we upbeat guy, a rarity among philosophy types.” W y tes

met, it was like something out of Romeo and After completing his doctorate, Westhus- r u

Juliet,” Michelle says. “I was in my apartment in ing returned to West Point to teach English Co

28 magazine winter 2011 and philosophy, and Michelle and the children settled into life on the scenic, historic campus, which runs along the Hudson River in New York. He was offered a lifetime assignment as a professor and seemed to enjoy the role of preparing young officers-in-training. “I will never forget the lessons [Westhus- ing] taught me. As a cadet in his philosophy class, he forged an understanding of right and wrong—the harder right, over the easier wrong,” wrote Carlos Keith, a 1996 graduate of West Point, on an alumni website. But Westhusing found it hard to be in a Professor of Philosophy classroom when the country he loved was a Nicholas Fotion often year into a conflict that he strongly supported, discussed just war considering the Iraq War a “just war” in the theory with Westhus- ancient, Augustinian sense of the term—a war ing. “The American that occurs for a good and just purpose rather military behaves more than for self-gain or power, waged by a proper in accordance with the authority, using no more force than necessary, just war theory now with peace as the ultimate goal. than it ever has in the Serving in Iraq, Westhusing told friends, past—they teach it in would help him be a better professor to officer training school,” says Fotion, who has cadets who might be facing service there or in written six books on Afghanistan. military ethics. “Given The person most difficult to convince, modern life, you have however, was Michelle. “It was one of the big- to give your soldiers a gest arguments we ever had,” she says, when she broad education. They discovered he had volunteered for duty in fall have to be more than 2004. “We had three kids, he was a professor. I good shooters.” couldn’t understand it.”

In the minds of friend and foe alike, our army is, without a doubt, the best-trained, best- equipped, best-led, and most intelligent of any in our nation’s history. Our soldiers are recognized as the world’s finest.” —Ted Westhusing, editorial in the Tulsa Tribune during Gulf War I.

ut Westhusing wouldn’t be dis- strategy. Millions of dollars from the US, much ing he had reviewed the alleged discrepancies suaded. After a few weeks of of it in cash, were being used to stimulate the and found that the company was complying training at Fort Benning, at age local economy, support public works, and pay with its contractual obligations, and that “the forty-four, he was on his way to private contractors. evidence suggests that these allegations are Baghdad to help train Iraqi forces At first, Westhusing’s correspondence u nt r u e .” to take charge of their own security. As head of indicated he was excited to be in Iraq, and his But his emails home were filled with disil- Bcounterterrorism and special operations for the commanders commended his performance; lusionment—about contractors, the money Multinational Security Transition Command, Petraeus soon promoted him to full colonel. changing hands, and infighting among the he worked in partnership with a private US But within a few months, the situation, Iraqis they were training. He began to lose security company contracted to train an elite and Westhusing’s state of mind, had started to sleep, grew physically ill, and told Michelle that group of Iraqi police in special operations. deteriorate. In May, Westhusing received an he thought he might have to resign his position. Westhusing reported to Major General anonymous letter claiming that there was ram- “Trust was very important to Ted. And in Joseph Fil and Lieutenant General David pant fraud, waste, and abuse of power in the last conversation I had with him, he said he Petraeus, a fellow West Point graduate who the private company he oversaw. was having trouble trusting anyone,” she says. was then in charge of operations in northern “Their only goal is to make as much money “He couldn’t trust the Iraqi police force, the Iraq. Petraeus was widely known for his abil- as they can, doing as little work as possible,” contractors, even his commanders. He was in n de ity to inspire his troops and gain the trust of read the letter, now publicly available under the a place far away from home, by himself, and he or the Iraqis; helping to rebuild Iraq and train Freedom of Information Act. felt very isolated. He felt like he had lost control nn b nn a their own forces was an important part of his Westhusing sent the allegations to Fil, say- over the whole, hopeless situation.”

winter 2011 magazine 29 Death before being dishonored anymore. —from a note found beside Ted Westhusing’s body

n June 5, 2005, Ted Westhusing was found dead in a trailer at Camp Dublin in Baghdad, his service pistol on his bed along Just War Theory and Modern Warfare with a letter indicating that The idea of creating conditions that make war “morally just” dates back to the Romans and he had taken his own life. “I cannot support a Greeks, and was further developed by St. Augustine, who, while believing that Christians Omsn [mission] that leads to corruption, human should be pacifists, made an exception for fighting defensively or in the defense of innocents. In rights abuse, and liars. I am sullied—no more,” an age of terrorism, counter-insurgencies, predator drones, and PSYOP units, however, do the it read in part. “I didn’t volunteer to support principles of a just war—one waged defensively, by a proper authority, for a lasting peace—still corrupt, money grubbing contractors, nor work apply? We asked a cross-section of University experts to share their thoughts. for commanders only interested in themselves. I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored. Just war: “Armed interven- with bombs strapped to her. tried in military or criminal . . . Death before being dishonored anymore.” tion, even for humanitarian It’s unpredictable and uncon- courts?”—Edward Queen The letter, says Michelle, was in her reasons, is not to be under- trollable. Guys say, I was husband’s handwriting. An official inquiry taken lightly. It requires a scared 24/7 over there. You Armed contractors:“There declared his death a suicide. Westhusing was precipitating event of signifi- have to think what that does is very little way to control the highest-ranking military official to have cant magnitude. . . [which] to your nervous system, your their behavior. If they kill died in Iraq at the time, and the story received might include egregious emotions. It’s not the regular civilians, is it reported? human rights violations, rules of engagement.”—Psy- Does anyone do anything widespread media coverage, especially after crimes against human- chologist Barbara Rothbaum, about it? Or are they just documents and interviews associated with the ity, massive war crimes, or post-traumatic stress expert sent home on the next investigation were released under the Freedom genocide.”—Edward Queen, plane?”—Nicholas Fotion of Information Act. Emory Center for Ethics “Hussein had his men go to a But many unanswered questions remain for town on the way to Baghdad “Armed private contractors Michelle, who now lives a quiet suburban life “The concept of just war and give machine guns to are one of the most asinine remains rooted in ancient the men and boys there. By ideas we’ve had, particu- with her eleven- and fifteen-year-old sons (her ideals. A just war, then and ROE (rules of engagement) larly in fraught situations daughter is away at college). now, should not be self-serv- they are combatants because where the need to build “Ted very much believed in honor and ing, to gain land, resources, they have weapons, so our local relationships is key. doing the right thing. I think he was told not to or power, and should be soldiers had to treat them as It’s a disturbing trend, at worry about things, to sweep them under the declared only after all non- such when they engaged us best.”—Edward Queen carpet and go home,” says Michelle. “But Ted violent forms of diplomacy in battle. Were the actions of have been exhausted. the American soldiers just? Instant isolation: “It’s almost couldn’t do that. He wasn’t just a professor of A just war is always a Yes. The evil lies with the a cliché from World War II, ethics, he didn’t just teach it, he believed it with last resort.”— Professor criminals who forced fathers the long boat ride home, all his heart.” Nicholas Fotion, author of and sons to run into battle. but that was very therapeu- Fotion also had stayed in contact with War and Ethics: A New Just But were American soldiers tic. You could process and Westhusing. “I had no clue that this was going War Theory touched by the evil of the grieve together. Contrast to happen,” he says. “The last email I got from situation? Also, yes.”—Dan that with one of our guys Defining the enemy: “It’s Cantey, Iraq veteran and from Vietnam who, as his him was a week before he died. He said he’d be not always clear who the graduate student, Depart- plane was taking off, mortars going home in a month or so. He hid it from enemy is. In old warfare, ment of Religion were following it, he barely me, but I gather his emails to his family were you line up and meet your escaped, and then less than more honest.” enemy. But now you don’t “How do we define an army, twenty-four hours later he His former student had a strong sense of know whether to trust if there are no uniforms? Are was home watching what morality, says Fotion, that could have been civilian women, kids, dogs. terrorists considered soldiers, he called ‘lies’ about the war on TV in his parents’ living challenged when “things ended up seeming Insurgents will use anything, criminals, pirates, enemies of anyone, a woman in a burka all humanity? Should they be room.”—Barbara Rothbaum so dirty to him there,” he says. “Ethics can be a brittle shell, and when that broke . . . well, I want to believe it was not a suicide. It breaks my heart for his kids and his wife.” him and say, we need you to come back and imbalance of power was between a tyrannical Veteran Dan Cantey is a graduate student in fight, and he gives a long speech asking basi- government and its people, and I’m glad we

Emory’s Department of Religion who, while he cally, am I going to go back and seek the glory tried to put a stop to that. m o never knew Westhusing, also served in Iraq and of war or go home?” “But I would also be naive to say that I c t o.

shares an interest in the classics and the ancient For his part, “I had no expectations about was unstained by it,” he adds. “Going to war, ho notion of just war. “You know, Book Nine of war being all glory, but I had very few qualms in general, changes you in ways that you don’t ckp

The Iliad is about Achilles—his friends go to about going over there,” Cantey says. “The understand.” ist o

30 magazine winter 2011 Two fates bear me on to the day of death. / If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy / My journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. —Achilles, The Iliad, Book 9

esthusing’s funeral service Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, suicide rates among and burial at West Point American troops have risen steadily to the highest levels in nearly were attended by gener- three decades. In 2004, the army reported that 67 soldiers on als Fil and Petraeus, who active duty committed suicide; in 2009, that number was 162. returned from Iraq for the Officials say primary causes are longer deployments to war zones, ceremony, as well as several other generals of depression, and stress. Wtwo stars or more. Looking back on it, Michelle The strength of Westhusing’s aretai, however, has been carried would just as soon his commanding officers forth. A memorial at Emory, organized by Fotion, was held for not have been present. “I feel like they let him Westhusing in September 2005 in the philosophy seminar room down,” she says. “I feel as if no one was watch- in Bowden Hall and was well attended. “Everyone told Teddy ing out for Ted’s welfare. He was trying to tell stories,” Fotion says, smiling at the memory. “I bound them up in a them something, and they ignored him. I can book and sent them to his wife.” only imagine how that felt to him.” One of Westhusing’s West Point classmates, D. Richard Tucker, has written a one-act play about West- husing’s death called Duty, Honor, Profit: One Man’s Struggle with the War in Iraq, which was performed in Seattle in 2008 during six weekends. “I knew Ted briefly, I had one class with him,” says Tucker. “I mainly knew him by reputation. He was the star of the class. When I saw the news story on the Internet, I couldn’t believe it. It hit me hard. Two years later, when the FOI documents were released, I decided to write the play.”

What made Ted unique among men is that he was exactly as he intended to be: ethical and moral beyond measure, forthright in all his dealings, always questioning. —Tom Weikert, writing on West-Point.org, in remembrance of Ted Westhusing

Michelle Westhusing once asked her husband to lassmates and colleagues continue if you had to tell someone what a West Pointer teach her the basics of philosophy, since she had to pay homage to Westhusing on is supposed to be like, you couldn’t do much never formally studied the discipline. He smiled a memorial site at west-point.org. better than to start describing Ted.” and told her she was already an expert. “He said, Reads one: “At this, the fifth The remembrances continue: Westhusing ‘It just comes down to knowing what the right anniversary of his death, it is effortlessly leading a rifle platoon, reading Kant, thing is and then doing it.’ That gets me through appropriate to remember all that Ted was . . . perfecting his Russian and Italian, rocking out the tough days: choose the right thing. And the forC what made Ted unique among men is that to Bruce Springsteen. right thing for me right now is to focus on raising he was exactly as he intended to be. Ethical and But perhaps Westhusing’s most poignant t h e k i d s .” moral beyond measure, forthright in all his living memorial, on this chilly fall evening just dealings, always questioning—Ted was the very before Thanksgiving, is the gangly fifteen-year- conscience of our class.” old warming up before a basketball game in his Another: “We all were very interested in Ted’s high school gymnasium. projects with the Trojan War and the Discovery He’s laughing, joking with his teammates, Channel documentary, and he recommended rolling the basketball effortlessly between his that we read The Iliad and Odyssey and picked hands and behind his back. out what he thought were the best translations.” And when he catches the ball and goes up And another: “I remember Ted best as cap- for a jump shot, it looks like he’s flying. tain of the honor committee. In many ways the “Just like Ted,” says Michelle, watching her Honor Code epitomizes West Point, and Ted son play. “He looks just like Ted when he does certainly epitomized the Honor Code. I think t h at .”

winter 2011 magazine 31 when President Barack Obama seeks advice on the potential benefits—and risks—of biotechnology, he consults a special commission vice chaired by Emory President James Wagner

from

lab to life In almost any field—science, law, business, poli- president of the University of Pennsylvania, a tics, medicine—the very skills, ingenuity, and political philosopher and scholar of ethics and technologies that promise tremendous benefit public policy. to society can also bring grievous harm. But per- And he selected Emory President James haps nowhere is this so true as in the emerging Wagner as vice chair, attracted by his back- area of biotechnology. ground as an engineer with specialties in Breakthroughs in genetic engineering, electrical, materials science, and biomedical nanotechnology, and synthetic biology are engineering, as well as the fact that he has occurring at a dizzying pace. And with these championed ethical engagement as a vital advances comes the potential to create artificial part of Emory’s identity. Universities, Wagner fuels and artificial pathogens, microscopic believes, must produce the next generation of medical markers and microscopic weapons, ethical professionals. synthetic vaccines and synthetic pandemics. “Training a mind alone can be dangerous, “As our nation invests in science and if this is decoupled from moral guidance,” he innovation and pursues advances in biomedi- says. “We need people who feel confident in cal research and health care, it’s imperative that their ability to exercise judgment based on we do so in a responsible manner,” President ethics and to make decisions based on moral Obama said last year, announcing the creation principle.” of a new Presidential Commission for the The remaining eleven panel members are Study of Bioethical Issues. scientists, ethicists, public policy experts, and Obama appointed as chair Amy Gutmann, MD/PhDs—one of whom is a Franciscan friar. by mary j. loftus

32 magazine winter 2011 Chair Amy Gutmann of Penn and Vice Chair James Wagner lead discussions on synthetic biology at the November meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues in Atlanta.

colleagues have done for real what Mary Shel- ley merely imagined.” Some said Venter had not created life but only “mimicked” it; doomsayers called the organism a “microscopic Frankenstein’s m on s t e r.” The White House was concerned enough to send Gutmann a letter dated the day of the announcement, asking her to set aside all other commission work to make recommendations within six months for how the government should respond to this leap in synthetic biology. “For the first time, all of the natural Lightning-rod issues ignite Center Hotel. They’ve listened to dozens of genetic material in a bacterial cell has been When the commission met in Atlanta in experts speak about the potential good works replaced with a synthetic set of genes,” said November, Gutmann and Wagner took the of biotechnology (organisms that can gobble the letter, signed by President Obama. “This opportunity to hold an evening dialogue on up oil spills) and terrifying misuses (artificial development raises the prospect of important bioethics at the Centers for Disease Control germ warfare). benefits, such as the ability to accelerate vac- and Prevention (CDC). Wagner told the audi- They’ve considered the impact of biotech cine development. At the same time, it raises ence—mostly Emory and Penn alumni—that research being conducted by professional genuine concerns.” universities must be able to take up “lightning- scientists in labs and amateur or DIYs (“do-it- During the course of its next three meet- rod topics,” such as the use of embryonic stem yourselfers”) in basements and garages. ings, Gutmann responded, the commission cells to treat chronic diseases. And in mid-December—just a month after would “examine the implications of the emerg- “It’s not that we are aggravatingly neutral, the Atlanta meeting where final details were ing science of synthetic biology, including the although sometimes we are,” he said. “We debated—the commission came up with a list announcement in May of the successful cre- must be inclusive. And it’s not about tolerating of recommendations for how the government ation of a self-replicating bacterial cell with a diverse viewpoints, it’s about demanding that should respond to a startling scientific develop- completely synthetically replicated genome . . . we have people who represent as many view- ment in synthetic biology: the possible creation [and] offer recommendations to ensure that points as possible.” of life. America reaps the benefits of this developing No topic was off limits during the wide- field within appropriate ethical boundaries.” ranging discussion, moderated by Kathy The storm over Synthia Kinlaw 79C 85T, associate director of the On May 20, 2010, the J. Craig Venter Institute Preparing for the best—and worst Emory Center for Ethics, and Penn’s Jonathan in Rockville, Maryland, announced that it had At its first public meeting July 8 and 9 in D.C., Moreno, a professor of medical ethics and the created “the first self-replicating species we’ve the commission invited several experts to talk history and sociology of science. had on the planet whose parent is a computer.” about the scope and definition of synthetic “The devil and God are both in the details,” The Venter lab’s synthetic single-celled biology, including Paul Root Wolpe, director Gutmann said of the difficult decisions sure organism, nicknamed “Synthia,” was manu- of the Emory Center for Ethics, and J. Craig to arise in bioethics. Should “designer” genes factured from artificial DNA the scientists pur- Venter, the father of “Synthia” himself. receive patents? How can lifesaving vaccines chased on the Internet. They then transferred “I think this is an area [in which] we are be fairly allocated? Can biotechnology be con- the synthetic DNA into an empty bacterium and limited more by our imaginations now than by trolled, or will its creations run amok? allowed it to multiply. any technological limitations,” Venter told the By now, Gutmann and Wagner are well The event made headlines around the commission, just hours after its members were

n practiced at bioethical hairsplitting and at world: “Scientist accused of playing God by sworn in. “I think having an intelligent ethical de entertaining possible future scenarios both making designer microbe from scratch,” “Syn- legal framework for this new science to emerge or inspiring and alarming (although Gutmann thetic life breakthrough could be worth over a in is absolutely critical.” nn b joked that The Blob is “the only movie I ever trillion dollars,” and “Genesis Redux.” Venter said advances in synthetic biol- r: a e

gn walked out of”). “In the end,” read a piece in the Econo- ogy could lead, fairly quickly, to synthetic flu

; wa They have led three public commis- mist, “there was no castle, no thunderstorm, vaccines and bio-crude fuels, two products his sion meetings, the third of which took place and definitely no hunchbacked cackling lab lab is working on through partnerships with r lab te November 16 and 17 at the Emory Conference assistant. Nevertheless, Craig Venter . . . and Novartis and ExxonMobil. n

: ve The next day, Wolpe shared his under- ia h t standing of various religious perspectives on Opposite page: The first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell, nicknamed “Synthia,” manufactured at the yn s J. Craig Venter Institute; the lab announced in May that it had created a new species. synthetic biology.

winter 2011 magazine 33 “I spoke to people from a variety of faith questions about what our proper relationship “We are talking about this against a back- traditions, from Buddhism and Emory’s is to the natural world, what are the important drop where we have had failures in controlling wonderful Emory-Tibet program; people from problems we as a species must solve, and so on.” the dissemination of organisms, and I don’t Islam, Christianity and Judaism, Hinduism,” he Wolpe warned that no matter how have to remind this group about the problems said. “What I discovered was that, fundamen- thoughtfully and deliberately we as a society we’ve had with things getting into places we tally, their objections or their concerns were proceed, however, there are no guarantees: don’t want them, whether they’re kudzu or those of all of us in this room. What are the “We can follow a path where every step is Japanese beetles or starlings or, for that matter, potential harms? What might happen if these examined individually and found to be ethi- zebra mussels and little beetles.” things are released into the environment? They cally unobjectionable and yet, a hundred steps At its third meeting in Atlanta, the group expressed a concern that synbio keep its eye later, we find ourselves in a place that no one hammered out eighteen draft recommenda- on maximizing human good and reducing suf- wants to be.” tions on federal oversight to present to Presi- fering, and if it does that, it’s acceptable. That The second public meeting was hosted by dent Obama before the year’s end. was reflected in the Vatican’s response, I think, Penn in Philadelphia on September 13 and Wagner, addressing his fellow panelists, set where they said the recent creation of Venter’s 14, and included an overview of emerging forth a series of provocative questions. What cell can be a positive development if correctly technologies in synthetic biology, a continued if a synthetic biology creation “is more robust used. And then there was a warning afterward, look at philosophical and theological perspec- than what is in nature?” he asked. “Or what if it that scientists should be careful about playing tives, social responsibility and risk assessment, could be applied for malevolent purposes? [To] God, creating life, remembering that only God knowledge sharing, and translating research for what degree do we interfere with the natural can do that.” the public good. order of life? Modern science and the bioethical dilem- Renowned bioethicist Arthur Caplan, direc- “Certainly some risk now can’t be imagin- mas it poses, Wolpe said, are simply “our tor of Penn’s Center for Bioethics, cautioned able,” he said, “but our job is to give advice to newest means of trying to struggle with eternal that consequences are hard to foresee. society on how to be best prepared.’’

Matters of Debate

What if scientists could create a real, live Neanderthal person, using knowledge of a genome sequenced from prehistoric DNA? That might seem like something from a Michael Crichton novel, but there is evidence that it’s closer than you might think. That’s why it was the first test problem put to students in a new, experimental course on bioethics—specifically, what Roberta Berry, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, calls “ethically fractious problems.” Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the course brings together students from four Atlanta institutions—Emory, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University College of Law, and Morehouse School of Medicine—to study bioethical questions from cross-disciplinary perspectives. Berry, director of Georgia Tech’s Law, Science, and Technol- ogy Program and the principal investigator for the project, conceived of the course to address emerging problems that meet five criteria: they are novel, complex, ethically fraught, divisive, and unavoidably of public concern. Should scientists be allowed to cultivate custom cellular machines? Students “The point of the grant proposal is that these problems will keep coming (left to right) Sarah Chambers, April Dworetz, and Maryam Daroudi present up, and we need to find ways to deal with them,” Berry says. “What caught their findings. Their answer: yes—carefully. the interest of the NSF was the idea of future scientists and engineers developing a particular set of skills necessary to deal with these issues at a policy level. The NSF also found the diverse mix of students very promising.” “This is an extraordinarily novel way to do interdisciplinary work,” The students are placed on teams of five to six members that deliber- says Kathy Kinlaw 79C 85T, associate director of Emory’s Center for Ethics ately mix the different institutions and disciplines, with representatives from and the Emory principal investigator and a facilitator for the course. “The the biosciences, public policy, law, engineering, and even the humanities. students have to work at representing their own disciplinary expertise in a There are no textbooks or assigned readings; rather, the teams are given way that can be heard. It has been interesting to watch them communicate a series of three problems and set loose (guided by a faculty facilitator) to to each other, then formulate how they will communicate their findings to an develop policy recommendations, which they ultimately present to invited educated public in order to impact the public policy process. It’s a fascinating stakeholders and policymakers including scientists and engineers, patent way to learn from a pedagogical perspective and much truer to the way they attorneys, law professors, judges, legislators, and legislative staffers. will work in the realms they are moving into.”

34 magazine winter 2011 Checking the moral compass of emerging technologies: public beneficence, ogy and related research cross traditional On December 16, the commission released responsible stewardship, intellectual freedom disciplinary boundaries, ethics educa- its recommendations, New Directions: The and responsibility, democratic deliberation, tion similar or superior to the training Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging and justice and fairness. required today in the medical and clinical Technologies. What follows is a sampling of the commis- research communities should be devel- “What [we] found is that the Venter sion’s eighteen recommendations, which can be oped and required. Institute’s research and synthetic biology are found in full at www.bioethics.gov. The commission concluded that it had not in the early stages of a new direction in a long • Innovation Through Sharing. Synthetic found cause for immediate concern: “All the continuum of research in biology and genetics,” biology is at a very early stage of devel- experts who testified agreed that any danger it states. “The announcement last May, although opment, and innovation should be is far off in the future. But that is not to say extraordinary in many ways, does not amount encouraged. that dangers won’t ever happen. That’s why the to creating life as either a scientific or a moral • Monitoring, Containment, and Control. commission has opted for a moderate course. matter . . . the likelihood of which still remains At this early stage of development, the It is operating on the principle of ‘prudent remote for the foreseeable future.” potential for harm through the inadver- vigilance.’ ” More realistic, says the commission, is the tent environmental release of organisms As for the work of Gutmann, Wagner, and expectation that synthetic biology will lead to or other bioactive materials produced the rest of the bioethics panel? They will begin new products for clean energy, pollution con- by synthetic biology requires safeguards two new projects—one involving the ethics trol, customized vaccines, targeted medicines, and monitoring . . . . For example, “suicide of genetic and neurological testing, the other and hardy crops. genes” or other types of self-destruction reviewing human subject trials to ensure that While forming its recommendations, the triggers could be considered in order to all participants are protected from harm and commission kept in mind five ethical principles place a limit on their life spans. unethical treatment. relevant to considering the social implications • Ethics Education. Because synthetic biol- In other words, no rest for the ethicists.

Tara Wabbersen 12PhD is a fourth-year stu- This year’s teams were assigned final problems with a focus dent in Emory’s Graduate Division of Biomedical on synthetic biology, so their work resonated with many of the and Biological Sciences, where she works in cell key issues discussed by the Presidential Commission for the and developmental biology. Her program requires Study of Bioethical Issues, which met at Emory in November. an initial two-day bioethics course and additional Just days later, the two teams met in the Center for Ethics to classes once a month, but she says she was deliver practice presentations to advisory council members. drawn to the depth offered by the NSF course. One team analyzed the potential impact of cultivat- “I’ve always been interested in bioethics, and ing emergent behaviors of differentiating cells, basically the I wanted a taste of what it’s like to work with the production of biological “machines” through steering the dif- bigger issues,” she says. “I was also interested ferentiation of interacting stem cells. The second team worked because, as a scientist, it’s good to get perspec- on a real-life project that is actually in development, led by a tive from nonscientists. It’s easy to lose sight of Harvard researcher—the creation of a cellular system designed that broader view.” to detect glucose levels in the blood and then instruct other Faced with the first question of the course, systems to produce and secrete insulin, to be used in treating Wabbersen says it was fairly easy for her team to Surinder Chadha Jimenez’s team sup- type I diabetes patients. come up with the answer: no, scientists should ports development of a new cellular Both teams drew on the highly controversial use of human not create a Neanderthal man. The challenge, system to treat type I diabetes. embryonic stem cells to illustrate their points, noting the ongo- though, was explaining why. “There were too ing debate over the definition of life and when it begins. They many big questions,” she says. “Would it be defined as a person? Would covered religious and ethical implications, the need for balance between there be social and class issues? The law student wanted to know what its private innovation and public interest, the possibility for dual use if the rights would be.” advances fall into the wrong hands, and the importance of public perception The NSF course was taught for the first time last year, and Sarah Cork in the success of new biological technologies. Ultimately, the teams found 11PhD, a graduate student in neuroscience at Emory, jumped at the chance that researchers in these areas should be encouraged to proceed—but with to take it. “I’m planning to go to law school, so I was very interested in the caution, and overseen by regulatory agencies and clear, restrictive policies. intersection of science and law and the ethical issues that arise,” she says. Still, the potential for health benefits far outweighs the risks, the teams said. For her team’s final problem, they were asked to determine whether a Melissa Creary 14PhD, who is studying public health, ethics, and history universal DNA database should be created that extends to all citizens, not in the Institute for Liberal Arts, has worked in the Division of Blood Disor- just those with a criminal record. Initially, the team was divided on the issue, ders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the past six years. with the minority members objecting to the formation of the database— “In my work, ethics comes up all the time,” she says. “If I were to rely on

n de which made for some interesting and at times tense discussion, Cork says. what I knew before this class, it was basically gut reaction and instinct. I was or Ultimately, they did recommend in favor of the database, although with a not really looking at the problem in a systematic way, which is what this nn b nn a range of qualifications and restrictions. class teaches.”—P.P.P.

winter 2011 magazine 35 The Devil you know

36 magazine winter 2011 The Devil you know

According to the movie The Social Network, Facebook, the of those use online social networking. Even Dumbest Generation, who has studied the world’s most popular networking site, was born seniors who are computer-savvy seem to be effects of electronic interaction among teens of dark motives. getting into the game, with social networking and college students. The propagation of cell On an autumn night in 2003, the story among those over fifty rising from 22 percent in phones and laptops among young people, begins, spurned Harvard student Mark Zuck- April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010. he says, has a profound impact on not only erberg takes a notion to vent his frustration And electronic communication is hardly their attention span, but also their intellectual with the fairer sex by creating a website called limited to computers. More than 70 percent development. Whereas once social life was “Facemash,” where visitors can rank pairs of of adults with cell phones text regularly and a limited to school and after-school activities, ill-begotten photos according to the hapless staggering 87 percent of teen cell users text an now teens are literally in constant contact with women subjects’ attractiveness. Within hours, average of fifty times a day. And of those mobile one another, isolating themselves in a bubble the site draws so much traffic that it crashes users, 23 percent of adults and 27 percent of of “BFFs .” Harvard’s network, and Mark winds up on teens use their handhelds to hop on the Internet “Peer pressure used to end at dinnertime,” academic probation—and hundreds of female on a typical day—with 23 percent of teens he says. “Now there is no end to peer-to-peer students’ hit lists. accessing social networking sites via phone. contact. It has always been important for that But the wild popularity of Facemash sparks The idea that we are are “always on,” contact to have a limit.” a chain of events that eventually result in constantly accessible and exchanging informa- That’s because teenagers don’t tend to The Facebook, as it was called until Napster tion through various networks and electronic encourage one another to cultivate their minds, mastermind Sean Parker reportedly suggested devices, is hardly novel. From socializing to he says—or their morals. “The presence of to Zuckerberg that “the” was uncool. Facebook shopping, working to networking, technology peers generally hinders intellectual growth,” he now has more than five hundred million active makes it possible to conduct more and more of says. “The problem is, in the world of ado- users around the world and is the third-largest life’s business—and pleasure—online. lescence, virtues are harder to come by and US web company (following Google and Ama- But scholars, social scientists, think tanks, the vices and narcissism of adolescence often zon), valued at more than $40 billion. and the media are showing increasing inter- overpower the better sides.” Certainly a fraction of those five hundred est in the real-life consequences of a virtual Which begs another, deeper, and darker million “friends” are Emory students—as well world—how the digital revolution is changing follow-up question: as they spend ever-increas- as faculty, staff, and alumni. There are Facebook the way we act, interact, and even think. ing hours engaged in electronic socializing and pages for Emory University, Emory Health- One of the central questions is whether networking, do people behave differently in care, the Emory Alumni Association, Emory the volume of technology use is creating new those virtual circles than they do in face-to- Sustainability, Emory Report, the Emory Eye generations of distracted, screen-addicted face situations? Center, the Emory Eagles—more than fifty in multitaskers unable to think and focus deeply There’s no question that the dangers of the digital realm have gotten plenty of bad press lately. The potential for anonymity lies at the heart of the is the increase in virtual interaction affecting matter, and is blamed for a good how we behave? by Paige P. Parvin 96G deal of bad behavior online. Take a trend that has made dozens of headlines in recent months: cyberbullying. The topic all for Emory alone. The Emory alumni page on meaningful subjects. Last year the New of yet another New York Times series, virtual has 2,480 friends. York Times launched a series of articles under viciousness among young people has been And Facebook is just one outlet for the the moniker “Your Brain on Computers” to blamed for teenagers’ unhappiness, social isola- ceaseless virtual interaction taking place across “examine how a deluge of data can affect the tion, and even cases of suicide. this community, which is but a microcosm of way people think and behave.” The headlines Some observers liken the Internet to a few the wired world. According to studies by the Pew alone tell the story: “More Americans Sense a stiff drinks: it may lessen people’s inhibitions,

n abaum Research Center’s Internet and American Life Downside to an Always Plugged-In Experi- but it doesn’t wholly transform their person- Project, in 2009, 79 percent of American adults ence,” “Attached to Technology and Paying a alities. Bauerlein, for one, seems to feel that used the Internet, and 46 percent accessed a Price,” and more recently, “Growing Up Digital, if online behavior is worse than real life, it’s y alex b y on usually only a matter of degree. Kids, he says, ati social networking site like Facebook, MySpace, Wired for Distraction.” r or LinkedIn. Among teens and young adults, 93 This is old news to Emory’s Mark Bau- haven’t changed much; it’s just that instead of

illust percent use the Internet, and at least 65 percent erlein, English professor and author of The sticks and stones, now they have smartphones.

winter 2011 magazine 37 "If there are a thousand kids from one Internet users to vent their anger are classic Hank Klibanoff, Emory’s new James M. Cox school on Facebook, and there are three bullies hot-button issues, like politics and religion. Jr. Chair in Journalism, agrees that anonymous and terrorists among them who are going to Emory’s Andra Gillespie, assistant professor of responses are a quagmire for any media outlet. sneak nasty photos and post them for everyone, political science, notes that political discourse A news industry veteran and Pulitzer–winning it makes the actions of those three appear online is increasing, marked by heated inten- author, Klibanoff says he has been surprised much more representative than they really sity and often outright ugliness. The level of and disappointed to see some newspapers are,” he says. “In truth, it’s the same old patterns malevolence, Gillespie says, probably reflects publish unsigned reader comments from their of teenage nastiness and peer pressure and an increasingly fractured media, which in turn websites—even in their print editions. victimization, but there are new weapons with reflects an increasingly polarized Congress. “I remember when newspapers never would which to unleash old motives.” “My hunch is that the proliferation of have carried a letter to the editor that was not Others, though, are more concerned that information networks has contributed to signed by someone, using their true name, and technology is warping social norms. Writing greater polarization and not cooperation,” she not verified as having come from that person,” about cases of students “outing” gay peers on says. “People feel protected by anonymity on he says. “Now that standard seems to be gone.” social networking sites—sometimes with tragic the Internet so it gives them an outlet to say From his perspective as an English profes- results—Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald rude things, but then, they are primed to say sor, Bauerlein agrees that the Internet blurs says, “No, there is nothing new about pulling rude things because we spend a lot of time individual identity, accountability, and author- pranks. What is new is the distance we now watching shows where the sole purpose is to ship in ways that can lead users to make poor have from other people, this tendency to objec- make fun of people and put them in a bad judgments, particularly when it comes to ethi- tify them. What is new is the worldwide reach light. I would be surprised if it did not seep cal scholarship and research. technology now affords us. And what is new is over into public discourse.” The web has made cheating much easier for the cruelty, this willingness to casually destroy Emory religion professor Gary Laderman students, for instance—even when they don’t someone else with a few clicks of a mouse.” experienced virtual vitriol firsthand through necessarily intend to. Emory sociologist Robert Agnew has studied Religion Dispatches, an online magazine he “When texts can circulate so easily, and be how negative pressures push people toward founded to offer thoughtful analysis of a range disengaged so easily from the author, there is criminal behavior. Last spring, he coedited an of religious topics and influences. Tending going to be a rise of cheating—mostly plagia- issue of the Journal on Contempo- rary Criminal Justice, in which the authors of one article found that "people feel protected by anonymity on the cyberbullying appears to be even more harmful—and have a stronger internet, so it gives them an outlet to say association to crime—than tradi- rude things." Andra Gillespie tional schoolyard bullying. “The impersonal nature of cyberbullying might make it even easier to engage in,” he said in a podcast on toward more progressive viewpoints, Religion rism,” he says. “The Internet lowers the distinc- cyberbullying versus the face-to-face kind. Dispatches rapidly became the target of ada- tion between authors and readers, texts are less “Individuals who might not necessarily engage mant and angry conservative voices—many of tied to words, and words are less proprietary.” in traditional bullying might well turn to which spoke from the dark. cyberbullying.” “The biggest issue we have had is anony- Despite the downsides, there mous online comments,” Laderman says. “Reli- is another, more promising outgrowth of the Among adults, too, the gion is a topic that generates a lot of heat, if not increase in online communication—one that invisibility cloak of the Internet, combined outright hate speech. I’m a scholar, and I want blossoms when like-minded people find one with its power to brush against thousands of people to be respectful and tolerant. I believe in another, untethered by geography. fellow users with one click, makes it a formi- academic freedom. But I feel in this context we In the two years since its launch, Religion dable weapon. have a responsibility to maintain a measure of Dispatches has grown steadily in popularity, Julie Zhuo, a product design manager for control over what can be put on the site.” with seven thousand subscribers on its listserv Facebook, recently wrote a Times opinion piece Laderman and his colleagues recently made and between two and three hundred thousand on “trolling”—the practice of posting inflam- the decision to discontinue anonymous com- visitors to the site each month. It’s an example matory or derogatory comments on Internet ments on the magazine’s main stories, although of an emerging sort of subject-specific, interac- forums. “Psychological research has proven they do accept letters to the editor—in which tive website where people can go for thoughtful again and again that anonymity increases the writer is identified. “People were upset,” discussion and analysis, and—if they behave— unethical behavior,” she writes. “Road rage bub- he says. “They wrote in, saying we were being air their own views. bles up in the relative anonymity of one’s car. undemocratic and going against the whole spirit Religion Dispatches is a site about religion, And in the online world, which can offer total of online communication. But I don’t buy that but there are growing numbers of online anonymity, the effect is even more pronounced. it’s democratic when you can hide behind some sources for religion itself—individual or com- People—even ordinary, good people—often avatar. The responsible thing to do is say your munal spiritual practice. Virtual spirituality change their behavior in radical ways.” name and be up-front. The tone and tenor of “seems to be valid for people,” Laderman says. In many cases, the subjects that prod things change when it’s a real letter to the editor.” “I don’t think it’s a lesser form of practice. It’s

38 magazine winter 2011 probably the future. Whether it’s establishing and they can recognize hollow self-promotion dous pressure to feed “viral” stories to a news a church on [the virtual-world site] Second on the part of the company. machine that literally never stops. That makes it Life or maintaining a memorial to someone “Brand communities are honest about the incredibly tempting to skimp on fact-checking who has died, it is genuine religious invest- company for the most part,” Shah says. “Of and accuracy in order to beat other outlets to ment and involvement signaling a profound course there are deceptive practices, such as the post—particularly since newsroom staffs change in how people are religious in the when companies plant positive reviews. But I have been slashed across the country. twenty-first century.” think in the end things right themselves. People “I think legitimate journalists are at a cross- In other areas, too, the proliferation of can sniff that out, when it’s the party line or roads where social media has the potential social media and online communication corporate communication.” to be a game-changer, and not necessarily a actually serves to increase civic participation, Virtual politicking is equally lively, if not positive one,” Klibanoff says. “I liken reporting knowledge, and candor. In the commercial more so. For years there has been an abundance to research, and you wonder what impact it business world, the Internet has transformed of political jokes, cartoons, and anecdotes being will have if researchers are being measured and the way consumers obtain information about shared among web surfers of every ideologi- evaluated by how many times a day they tweet products; now consumer sites and online cus- cal stripe, many of which have been known to or post their findings on Facebook.” tomer reviews allow potential buyers to benefit ruffle feathers if spotted by the wrong friend on But the slipperiest slope for journalists from others’ experience before purchasing. Facebook. But more recently, political leaders when it comes to social media may be how While there are certainly lone (and anony- and candidates have jumped into the fray with they use it themselves. Is it okay for a reporter mous) voices, the sheer volume of consumer “official” messages and campaign tactics, aimed to express opinions on Twitter about people communication helps bolster its validity, at reaching voters where they live: online. or events they cover? Is Facebook a reliable source of information? Is it ethical for a writer’s personal blog to reveal information editors cut from a story? Most seasoned editors, including Klibanoff, would say no. “It’s bad reporting to rely solely on online sources,” he says. “I think news organizations,

From left: Hank Klibanoff, Reshma Shah, and Gary Laderman

because of their hunger for as many hits as they can get, are more vulnerable than ever to fraud.” However, Klibanoff adds, it is possible for social media to be used responsibly, and to great effect—as in the lead of a story in according to Reshma Shah, assistant profes- “This is the election when it became more the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published sor of marketing at Goizueta Business School deeply embedded in the rhythms of campaign- in October. After a young family was killed and coauthor of the recent book How to Make ing,” Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet in a car accident, reporters quoted from the Money with Social Media. and American Life Project, told the Associated mother’s MySpace page, where she had won- “Technology makes it very easy for infor- Press after the November elections. “It’s not dered about her twins’ future: “What will my mation to get out there, whether positive or so much that as a single thing it influences boys look like when they grow up? . . . Will the negative,” Shah says. “In the past, corporate people’s votes but that it’s now so inextricably a personalities that I know now still exist when secrets had to pass from one person to another, part of the political communication landscape.” they are twenty?” but now people can put information out as Emory’s Gillespie, who studies political par- “Years ago, those beautifully powerful, lov- soon as they have it and do it anonymously as ticipation, says there is evidence that Internet, ing remarks would only be in a private scrap- on; on; t social media, and especially text-messaging book,” Klibanoff says. “It’s appropriate to use a n well. Business organizations know this, and i

y h y they are much more careful about what they campaigns can boost voter turnout. “It’s abso- combination of news judgment and viscera and say publicly and do privately. I do think it helps lutely essential now for political candidates to common sense.” h: kah: a keep them more honest.” have a web presence,” she says. The poignant dreams of a young mother z Many companies also have plunged into the For the news industry, the social media expressed in a receptive online community are n; s h n; de or realm of social media themselves, using it as a explosion presents a confusing tangle of oppor- a far cry from Harvard students rating women’s n melt a n ry nn b nn marketing tool, as Shah explains in her book. tunity and risk. Formerly managing editor at looks on an insidious site called Facemash, : a : But unlike traditional marketing strategies, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Klibanoff says where it all began. It’s a good reminder that you n: b ma n: no ff r Internet-based “brand communities,” consum- the wildfire spread of information via online can use the Internet to be whoever you want— ade kliba L ers are active participants in the conversation— networks keeps reporters under tremen- even yourself.

winter 2011 magazine 39 from the President

Is teaching ethics a waste of time?

Is it really possible for a university to be us much about how “ethically engaged,” as Emory, in its vision statement, calls to live “right” on our itself to be? Maybe more to the point, can a university campus. But these even hope to teach people to be ethical as well as to merely things still do not get cogitate and talk about ethics? Can an institution as big and at whether Emory diverse as a research university really back up reflection is ethically engaged. with doing when it comes to striving for goodness? To understand that, A lot of people would say no—that the level of ethical we need to know engagement students leave with is not much different than whether Emory can what they arrive with, and that, with few exceptions, staff live responsibly. and faculty members work month after month without Take an instance much change in their general sense of the good and their from Emory’s history. ability to follow the rules. Some people say yes—that stu- In the 1980s, as South dents and employees do in fact strive toward institutional Africa’s apartheid and community ideals, and that they also develop good regime held tightly ethical habits to the degree that rules, processes, and ethical to power, students culture are in place to guide their behavior. and faculty at many For my part, I respond to these questions by going out American universities on a limb and saying—maybe. Maybe a university can teach advocated divesting James Wagner, president, ethical engagement. For those that consciously attempt it, I institutional endow- emory university think success depends on their ability to nurture good judgment in companies ment in people. that did business in South Africa. At Emory, which then What do I mean by “judgment”? The great American held a heavy concentration in Coca-Cola stock, the concern ethicist and Christian philosopher H. Richard Niebuhr—the was whether The Coca-Cola Company’s presence in South younger and less-renowned brother of Reinhold Niebuhr— Africa—and therefore Emory’s investment—somehow offers helpful insight in his posthumous masterpiece The supported the apartheid regime or, on the other hand, Responsible Self. There he outlines three ways of thinking made it possible for black South Africans to rise above their about ethics: we can seek to live by what is right, trying to economic circumstances. President Jim Laney appointed a follow the most-just laws we can devise; we can strive to aim task force, chaired by ethicist Jon Gunnemann, to study the for what is good, working to build a way of life that most matter. The task force’s deeply probing and thoughtful 1986 effectively promotes our vision of human happiness; or we report—articulating clear principles, presenting guidelines, can aim to live responsibly, putting less emphasis on rules and recommending transformative engagement—still offers and definitions of the good, and more on our response to a superb instance of the kind of ethical responsibility of what is needed. For Niebuhr, response-ability is the capacity which institutions are capable. to size up what is going on, determine what the appropriate In a world that seems to want to abdicate the exercise response should be, and then hold oneself accountable for of judgment in favor of rote behavior, teaching to the test, the outcomes of one’s actions. and formulaic answers to complex questions, it becomes In large measure this is what I take to be the mission of ever more incumbent on a university to instill judgment in an ethically engaged university. It is true that universities, young men and women. like some nations and other collective enterprises, often For my part, I believe that judgment is the gold standard spell out “the good” in their founding documents. Where by which Emory measures all other skills and talents. The the aim of “the people of the United States” is “to form a technically best surgeon needs good judgment about where more perfect Union,” and so on, the aim of the founders of and when not to cut. The most talented writer must exercise Emory University was “to encourage freedom of thought judgment both in choosing the right word for the right as liberal as the limitations of truth.” Behind both of these place and in leaving out some good but extraneous words. statements lies an understanding that such endeavors are The most knowledgeable MBA holder needs judgment to worthy and good—that men, women, and society in general determine when maximizing profits might not maximize will be the better for having undertaken them. happiness or goodness. It is also true that universities establish what is “right”— Good judgment is the sine qua non of human maturity, policies, procedures, regulations about everything from and it should be (if it’s not already) the distinctive quality of proper laboratory work to behavior in residence halls and an Emory education. the keeping of work hours and so on. Reading Emory’s charter and bylaws tells us something n de about the founders’ understanding of what the “good”

university should be, and reading our policy website tells Bor Ann

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“We have the opportunity to develop the talent of so many of our kids who otherwise may not have had a fighting chance to succeed.” The Quiet Power Rick Rieder 83B (page 43) of Annual Giving

SUMMER 2010 magazine 41 a giving community A new endowed fund honors Thomas Whitesides (foreground). John Heller is helping build the endowment.

We often talk about community at Emory, and with good Philanthropist Honors Emory Surgeon with Major Gift reason. Our community begins Grateful for having received outstanding patient care, a philanthropist has on Emory’s Atlanta and Oxford campuses and extends around committed $1 million—and so far thirty-five former spine surgery fellows have matched the world, comprising a diverse the gift—with the goal of establishing the Thomas E. Whitesides Jr., MD, Endowed network of alumni, students and parents, faculty and staff Chair in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery. both current and retired, Whitesides 51BS 55M, a professor emeritus in the Department of Orthopaedics, patients and their families, and other friends. served as a faculty member for forty years and chaired the department for eight years. He founded the Spine Fellowship Program in 1989 and directed the program until Bound by our ties to this great university, many of us are finding retiring from clinical practice in 2000. He remains active in teaching, editing, and research. creative ways to invest in its Spine surgeon John Heller, professor of orthopaedics at the Emory Spine Center mission and vision. and current director of the Spine Fellowship Program, challenged all of the program’s In this issue of the Campaign forty-six graduates to match the anonymous gift. Chronicle, you’ll read about some of these gifts, including the Emory trustee investing in the Office of University- Emory Employees, Retirees Community Partnerships (page Give More than $50 Million 43), the Emory patient honoring her surgeon with a $1 million MyEmory, the employee and retiree endowment (above right), and the English professor helping component of Campaign Emory, has sustain a scholarship that exceeded its goal of $50 million. Current bears his name (page 45). and former Emory employees contributed Their stories offer a glimpse into $52 million as of September 30, 2010. Emory’s philanthropic community, which is fueling a remarkable Representing every school and unit, range of work in academics, these donors support scholarships, profes- health care, the arts, and so many other areas. If you haven’t already, sorships, patient care, the arts, research, I hope you’ll join our community and countless other priorities. of giving this year. You’ll find it’s a welcoming one. “All of us at Emory have been blessed in countless ways, so it’s appropriate for our community to be a source of blessing One of more than 3,300 employees investing through a culture of philanthropy,” said Susan Cruse, Senior Vice President, in Emory, Sandra Still 83G 94PhD supports Development and Alumni Relations academics, the libraries, and the museum. President James Wagner.

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Goizueta Grad Invests in Young Students

Middle school is a difficult time for many students, but for those who face additional challenges in their homes and communities it can be the most critical time of their lives.

To improve the academic performance of middle school students and boost their chances for success, New York business leader Rick Rieder 83B has made a $1 million gift to Emory University to help create a program that will address academic and community issues to lower high-school dropout rates. Graduation Generation Atlanta, which is Business leader Rick Rieder is supporting an academic program co-led by Emory’s Office of University-Community Partnerships administered through the University’s Office of (oucp.emory.edu). University-Community Partnerships (OUCP) and the Atlanta nonprofit Communities In Schools, was Emory University Board of Trustees and the National formulated by a group of community builders from Leadership Council of Communities In Schools. higher education; philanthropic foundations; national, Passionate about urban educational improvement in the state, and local nonprofit agencies; and public schools. United States, he also chairs the board of trustees of These partners are focusing on factors within the school North Star Academy Charter School of Newark. In 2005 setting, notably the engagement of parents, as well as he received the Goizueta Business School Distinguished factors within students’ communities. This holistic Alumni award. approach acknowledges the links between academic Graduation Generation Atlanta will begin in success and where and how children learn and live. Atlanta’s Edgewood community, which—like many “We have a window in our society today to do urban communities—has been hard-hit by the something very special, given the current level of economic downturn yet has strong foundations and support for education at the national, state, and local assets. Sammye E. Coan Middle School, part of Atlanta government levels. We have the opportunity to develop Public Schools, will be the center of much activity, with the talent of so many of our kids who otherwise may the intention to bolster Coan students’ success both in not have had a fighting chance to succeed,” Rieder says. middle school and high school. “This is the most exciting thing that we can do as “This gift helps to forge a relationship between a collective community. We will win at this. The only OUCP and Communities In Schools and to strengthen question is on how large a scale. I am thrilled to be a relationships each has established in local communities part of this effort and have grand hopes for what we can and with local schools,” says Emory Provost Earl Lewis. ultimately accomplish.” “The program it supports will benefit students in the Rieder, chief investment officer of fixed income adjacent neighborhood and Emory students and faculty for fundamental portfolios with BlackRock, an assets who participate in the partnership. We thank Rick for and investments management firm, is a member of the his commitment to the dream we all share.”

SUMMER 2010 magazine 43 schools and units digest Campus Life Malcolm Bruni 92C created a leadership fund in the Office of LGBT Life in honor of Physical Education Professor Dan Adame. The Adame Leadership Fund will create leadership opportunities for LGBTQ students and allies with a passion for healthy living.

Candler School of Theology Dunwoody United Methodist Alumnus Makes Challenge Church in Atlanta is naming a Gift to Emory Law Fund group study room in phase II of the theology building. The church and Emory Law alumnus and volun- A new facility befits the top-ten national status of its senior pastor, B. Wiley Stephens the Rollins School of Public Health. teer Lash Harrison 62B 65L has pledged 65T, are longtime supporters of Candler School of Theology. Claudia Nance Rollins $250,000 in challenge funds to encourage fellow alumni to support the Emory Law Emory College of Arts and Sciences Building Dedicated School Fund for Excellence. His gift will CNN has made a gift to Emory’s Emory’s reputation has grown stronger create the C. Lash Harrison Endowment James Weldon Johnson Institute to create a series of public dialogues with the opening of a second building for to provide unrestricted support for the with the National Center for Civil the Rollins School of Public Health. school’s greatest priorities. and Human Rights. The program was conceived by the institute’s Members of the Rollins family and In the coming years the endowment founding director, Rudolph P. Byrd. the Emory community recently dedicated will support priorities such as scholarships, Emory HEALTHCARE the Claudia Nance Rollins Building, which help recruit and retain faculty, purchase Norio Hirono of Shinjyo City, Japan, houses a growing body of students and technology, maintain and renovate learning made a leadership annual gift to the Carlyle Fraser Heart Center at Emory faculty from around the world. The building spaces, provide real-world practice expe- University Hospital Midtown to honor is named for the mother of longtime Emory riences for students, and support other his former teacher, Linton Bishop. benefactor O. Wayne Rollins and his professional development activities. Emory Law brother John, thus extending the family’s Former Woodruff Scholar Laura S. Huffman 08L, an associate with ties with the school to five generations. King & Spalding in Atlanta, is The new building is connected by a mentoring a third-year student and has made a gift to the Emory glass-enclosed bridge to the Grace Crum Public Interest Committee. Rollins Building, named in honor of O. Emory Libraries Wayne’s wife. In 2007, the Rollins family The Vasser Woolley Foundation made a $50 million commitment toward has made a gift to the Paul B. Seydel Belgian Collection to the $90 million cost to construct a second purchase sixteenth- and building and renovate the Grace Crum seventeenth-century books from the Low Countries for the Rollins Building. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Since construction of the new building Book Library. began in 2008, the school has experienced Emory SCHOOL OF MEDICINE record enrollment. What began as a master’s The Jim Cox Jr. Foundation has given $50,000 to the Department program with sixteen students in 1975 has of Neurology to further research evolved to become one of the nation’s top- and care with a focus on Alzheimer’s To read more about Laurie and Art Vinson and their and Parkinson’s diseases. ten public health schools. gift, visit campaign.emory.edu/news.

44 magazine winter 2011 schools and units digest Goizueta Business School Jon Mayblum 84BBA and Laura Mayblum 84C have funded an Adopt-A-Scholar Scholarship, awarded to a student using the resources of the Emory Disability Services Office.

Harry Rusche invests in Emory College students. JAMES T. LANEY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES Beloved Professor Donors who want to honor former Building on the gift, the Emory Law Emory President James Laney Advisory Board is working to generate Supports Scholarship can invest in the James T. Laney Symposium endowment. Once $250,000 in new gifts from alumni and If the measure of a teacher is a steadfast funded, the symposium will be $200,000 from Emory Law campaign devotion to students, Harry Rusche ranks held annually on the anniversary of the graduate school’s naming. and board leaders in the next three years. at the top. Rusche, former Arthur M. Harrison will match all new gifts at the Blank Distinguished Teaching Professor Michael C. Carlos Museum The David R. Clare and Margaret Barrister ($1,000) and Dean’s Circle of English at Emory College of Arts and C. Clare Foundation has pledged ($2,500) levels as part of the school’s “100 Sciences, extends that dedication to his to support the Carlos Museum’s educational programs over the Barristers in 100 Days” program. personal philanthropy. next four years. Harrison is a partner in the Atlanta He and his wife, Sue, invest in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff law firm Ford & Harrison, which he Harry and Sue Rusche Scholarship Fund, School of Nursing helped found in 1978. He served on which supports a rising senior majoring in To support the Emeritus Faculty Scholarship Fund, Lynda P. Nauright Emory’s Board of Visitors from 1999 to English at Emory College. The fund was has designated the School of 2002. He is a member of the Emory Law established by Sam Stahl 03C and the Stahl Nursing, where she taught for thirty years, as the beneficiary of her Advisory Board. Family Foundation. retirement plan.

Photo: Lash Harrison challenges other alumni to Oxford College support the law school’s unrestricted fund. The scholarship created by Luke Gregory 76OX 78C and Susan Gregory 77OX 79C in memory of classmate Michael S. Overstreet 76OX 78B has raised more than $70,000. The Longtime Donors Support goal is $100,000. Oxford Science Building Rollins School of Oxford College alumnus Art Vinson 66OX Public Health 68C and his wife, Laurie, are supporting the Research leaders Stuart Zola (left) and Allan Levey Michael H. Kutner and his wife, Nancy, have established the Michael fund-raising effort for a new science building H. Kutner Fund for Biostatistics and on the Oxford campus. Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease Bioinformatics, which will support PhD candidates in biostatistics, and By designating Oxford as the beneficiary of The volunteer activities of Mary Rose the Michael H. Kutner Award for a fully paid life insurance policy, the Vinsons Taylor have helped benefit the Emory achievement in biostatistics. are able to make a leadership gift to the project, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Yerkes National which is one of Oxford’s top priorities. its leaders, Emory neurologist Allan Levey Primate Research Center Donors can help advance science To learn about the creative options that and Emory neuroscientist Stuart Zola. and improve health by investing gift planning offers, call 404.727.8875 or visit Emory’s is the only comprehensive center in the Yerkes Fund for Excellence, which supports researchers seeking www.emory.edu/giftplanning. in Georgia and one of few in the South. treatments, preventions, and cures.

winter 2011 magazine 45 CAMPAIGN PROGRESS* AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2010

Campus Life Goal: $5 million

$6.4 MILLION RAISED CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP Candler School of Theology Goal: $60 million Campaign Emory Chair $36 MILLION RAISED Walter M. “Sonny” Deriso 68C 72L Emory College of Arts and Sciences Goal: $110 million

$70 MILLION RAISED Cabinet Ellen A. Bailey 63C 87B Emory Healthcare Goal: $305 million Chair, University Programs $243.6 MILLION RAISED Russell R. French 67C Chair, Leadership Prospects Emory Law Goal: $35 million Committee $18.3 MILLION RAISED M. Douglas Ivester Emory Libraries Goal: $27 million Chair, Health Sciences $7.8 MILLION RAISED Teresa M. Rivero 85OX 87B 93MPH Chair, Alumni Engagement Emory School of Medicine Goal: $500 million

$416.6 MILLION RAISED School and Unit Chairs J. David Allen 67C 70D 75DR Goizueta Business School Goal: $75 million Beverly Allen 68C Nell Hodgson Woodruff $36.5 MILLION RAISED School of Nursing

James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies Goal: $10 million Courtlandt B. Ault James H. Morgens $7 MILLION RAISED Michael C. Carlos Museum

Michael C. Carlos Museum Goal: $35 million James B. Carson Jr. 61B $24.2 MILLION RAISED Goizueta Business School

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Goal: $20 million Ada Lee Correll Emory School of Medicine $19.6 MILLION RAISED William L. Dobes Jr. 65C 69M 70MR Oxford College of Emory University Goal: $40 million Yerkes National Primate $27.1 MILLION RAISED Research Center

Rollins School of Public Health Goal: $150 million William A. Brosius 85B Crystal Edmonson 95C $140.1 MILLION RAISED Emory Alumni Board

Yerkes National Primate Research Center Goal: $30 million J. Joseph Edwards 54OX 56B 58B $15.8 MILLION RAISED Henry Mann 62OX 64C Oxford College * Progress chart does not include goals for general University and Woodruff Health Sciences Center initiatives. James R. Gavin III 70PhD James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies

DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE STAFF Laura Hardman 67C Campus Life Susan Cruse, Senior Vice President, Jason Peevy, Executive Director of Ann Klamon 65C 76L Development and Alumni Relations Development Communications Lawrence P. Klamon 404.727.6061 | [email protected] 404.727.7181 | [email protected] Rollins School of Public Health

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Bishop B. Michael Watson 74T Candler School of Theology

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A Decade of Miller Ward 48 Emory Cares The Miller-Ward Alumni House celebrates its tenth anniversary this year as the heartbeat of alumni 50 Emory Medalists 2010 gatherings and activity. Photo by Tom Brodnax 65Ox 68C. 52 Alumni Ink

winter 2011 magazine 47 from the EAA

“What’s new at the EAA?” Emory Everywhere That’s a question I’m asked quite a bit— perhaps even more so at the beginning of the new year. And every year I’m pleased to say, “Quite a lot.” TheEAA recently completed a three-year strategic plan—the contents of which address, in large part, comments and requests alumni like you made in response to surveys we distributed in early 2010. One area that figures prominently in our plan is alumni career services, and we are focusing our efforts on connecting alumni for professional networking on LinkedIn. We’ve moved several of our alumni groups, such as the Emory Alumni Consulting Group, to this easily accessible and very popular professionally oriented site. If you aren’t already a member of the EAA’s group (just search the site for “Emory alumni”), I encourage you to join today and connect to the more than four thousand fellow alumni who are already there. We’ve also just launched our redesigned More than 1,500 community members volunteered for Emory Cares International Service Day in website (www.alumni.emory.edu), which November. In Tuscon, Arizona (above), Matt Riley 06C and Mildren Johnson 72N got dirty at the enhances the online experience for our alumni Comunity Food Bank’s Marana Heritage Farm. by offering easier navigation, upgraded features, better connection, and faster service. Not all of our connections are online, of course. If you’re going to be in Atlanta on February 18, I hope you’ll be our guest at our MWAH Open House. Like Emory itself, we’ll always be your home.

allison dykes vice president for alumni relations

Alumni volunteers helped out at the

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Seoul, Korea (above); Lindsey Whit- elt Dallas, February 16 Dinner and Museum Tour lock 08B pulled weeds and more n M a at a community garden in Chicago

Los Angeles, February 16 Presidential : Bry (above right); and (in T-shirts, from kes left) Melvin Sheih 14C, Max Gomas, Destinations y Jennifer Jang 14C, and Paoula ; d San Francisco, February 17 Presidential

Gueorguiva 13C worked at Atlanta’s e eaa Refugee Resettlement and Immigra- Destinations h y t tion Services (below right). In all, tes r the “day” encompassed seventy-six Atlanta, February 22 “Voyages” Interactive u o

projects in twenty-seven cities and Discussion : c es four countries. r Houston, March 10 Alumni Networking Night ory ca m

For more, visit www.alumni.emory.edu/calendar. E

48 magazine winter 2011 Miller-Ward Alumni House

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shining examples: William Warren III 53B and Twilla Haynes 80 MN are leaders in volunteerism and community spirit.

In 1985, Haynes established a public health international nursing course that incorporated Haiti as part of the learning experience. “The students really drove it,” she said. “And I began to see the world through their eyes. They were excited about it. I also saw how little it took to save a life. I saw a twenty-cent box of Amoxicil- lin save little lives.” Then, in 1993, Haynes, with the help of her daughters—Angela Haynes 91PH 08N 09MN and Hope Haynes Bussewius 93MN—founded EHIH. In 1996, the Haynes family opened the Hope Haven Orphanage in Cap-Haitien. Haynes, a nurse practitioner, also is cofounder of Health Connections, an Atlanta- based organization that serves the needs of the poor and underserved. Both of her daughters assist with care at the Health Connections Clinic in Jefferson, Georgia, which treats nearly 5,400 patients annually. “I raised them with that notion that there are always those out there who have less, and it is our responsibility to share and help bring them up,” Haynes said. Haynes has more than twenty-five years of teaching experience and has served on the faculty of several universities, including the Medical College of Georgia, where she was twice named Teacher of the Year. She also has Emory Medalists 2010 assisted with the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing’s South Georgia Farm Work- Nurse practitioner, business leader earn ers Health Project and has served on Emory’s Nurses’ Alumni Association (NAA) Board. Emory’s highest alumni honor Like Haynes, Warren is a longtime alumni leader, and he has deep family ties to the The 2010 Emory Medalists include a thousands of earthquake victims in the second institution. When Warren graduated from nurse practitioner and educator dedicated to largest city in Haiti, Cap-Haitien. EHIH was Emory in 1953, his maternal grandfather, teaching students close to home and helping founded by Haynes, an Emory alumna who Charles Howard Candler 1898C, handed him some of the world’s most vulnerable popula- has worked for more than a quarter century to his diploma. His paternal grandfather, Wil- tions abroad, and an Atlanta business and improve the lives of Haitians of all ages. liam Chester Warren 1890M was an alumnus, alumni leader who traces his family roots back In 1984, in response to a measles outbreak too. Warren’s father, William C. Warren Jr. to Emory’s beginnings and has worked tirelessly in Cap-Haitien, Haynes was asked to assist 20C 22M, served as president of the Board of for six decades to improve his alma mater. in providing health care and immunization Governors (as the Emory Alumni Board once Those alumni, Twilla Haynes 80MN services there. The impact of that trip has was known) from 1947 to 1948, and Warren’s and William Warren III 53B, received their driven Haynes personally and professionally son, William C. Warren IV 79M 82MR, is an Emory Medals at a ceremony on Thursday, ever since. alumnus and trustee. That’s four generations of October 7, in Cox Hall. Awarded by the Emory “It was more than about health care,” Warrens at Emory—it is no stretch to say that Alumni Association (EAA), the Emory Medal Haynes said. “It was taking care of humans— Billy Warren’s family helped build Emory into is the highest University award given exclu- humankind. There was starvation, lack of water, the institution it is today. sively to alumni. lack of housing—people were living in squalor. “I was born with a silver spoon in my In the aftermath of the earthquake that Even as much as the needs of the population, mouth,” Warren said simply. “But my parents devastated Haiti in early 2010, an organiza- the people, I was also overwhelmed by the didn’t act that way and neither did my grand- n de tion named Eternal Hope in Haiti (EHIH) was needs of the providers. They didn’t have basic parents.” Warren grew up at Callenwolde and or

tapped to help coordinate rescue services for working tools.” lived with both earlier generations of his family. b nn a

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Even from a young age, Warren developed Center, and Warren also has been a significant a remarkable work ethic and a sly sense of supporter of Emory Wesley Woods Hospital EM Classifieds humor. When he stepped to the podium to (where Warren’s son Glenn is an emeritus Beautiful Mountain House for Rent receive his medal, he brought an athletic bag board member). Comfortable, spacious, two-story home in a private, with him. Warren said he used the prop so he “I hope my grandfather is looking down, wooded community just 12 miles from all of Ashe- ville’s famous charm and culture. On a mountain, could keep the audience’s attention while he seeing me, and saying he’s proud,” Warren said. at 3,450 feet the house offers one of the area’s most was speaking—everyone would want to know “And my father, too. I hope they somehow spectacular long-range views. Enjoy it from the what was in the bag. know what is transpiring down here.” 1,000-square foot, multi-level deck, the hot tub, or Just before stepping down, he opened the The Emory Medal is awarded each year by indoors, in front of the fire. www.chestnutforest.com bag to reveal . . . an Emory shirt. Boisterous the EAA, and recipients are recognized for their applause followed. accomplishments in at least one of the fol- Furnished Room for Rent Located one mile from Emory campus. Room has As a young man, he worked in construction lowing areas: distinguished service to Emory, walk-in closet and private bath. Preference given to and auto repair and, for a year, worked in south the EAA, or a constituent alumni association; graduate student or Emory employee. $700/month Georgia packing peaches. After graduating, distinguished community or public service; or includes utilities, wireless Internet, cable, and he became a fixture of the Atlanta business distinguished achievement in business, the arts, monthly maid service. Contact [email protected]. community. Warren brought that hard-work government, or education. Notice Anything Different? mindset to Emory, where he has been a fixture “Twilla Haynes’s and Billy Warren’s contri- Emory Magazine is now accepting classified at the University for six decades. butions to our community have been remark- ads! This section offers a new way for you to Warren has served on the Board of able,” said Leslie Wingate 82C, senior director connect with more than 100,000 fellow alumni. Trustees, Board of Visitors, Alumni Leader- for alumni programs with the EAA. “Their For more information, contact 404.727.7146 or ship Committee, Emory Healthcare Board, engagement with Emory serves as an example [email protected]. Woodruff Health Sciences Board, Emory for all alumni to follow. Fewer than 150 alumni Clinic Board, and much more. His work was have received the Emory Medal, and the EAA is Place your ad! instrumental in the creation of the interna- proud to welcome our 2010 recipients into this Call 404.727.7146 or email tionally recognized Woodruff Health Sciences exclusive group.”—Eric Rangus [email protected]

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winter 2011 magazine 51 register alumni ink for the International Storytelling Center in Mountain Jonesborough, Tennessee. Almost to Eden, June Hall McCash 67PhD’s Majesty debut historical novel set on Jekyll Island and in New York, presents the narrative of an A Blue Ridge mountain boy living in Atlanta, Irish immigrant working as a chambermaid Charles Maynard 80T cherished the faint at the famous Jekyll Island Club. In search of view of the ridges from the tenth floor of liberty in a new Eden on the Georgia coast, Woodruff Library while studying for his Maggie O’Brien finds even freedom does not master’s of divinity at Emory. He was, he says, nard tells of the people and places he’s come always win out over the power of money. “homesick for the mountains.” to know and love while living, traveling, and In his recent book, The Blue Ridge Ancient hiking in the mountains since childhood. Pulling the curtain on a Southern banking and Majestic: A Celebration of the World’s Maynard is a member of the Holston family’s secrets and scandals, Miles DeMott Oldest Mountains, Maynard and photog- Conference of the United Methodist Church, 90C’s Family Meeting explores the inner rapher Jerry Greer capture the life, culture, where he serves as director of development workings of family dysfunction. In an effort and natural and human history of the for camp and retreat ministries. He was also to free themselves of the family’s defining rocky stretch from Georgia to Pennsylvania the first executive director of Friends of asset, each member seeks personal salvation, through photographs and essays. As narrator Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and hoping to redefine the reputation built over and self-proclaimed amateur naturalist, May- later served as the director of advancement generations.—Alyssa Young 11C

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Merideth Kaye Clark 00C was born singing. She’s been told that she lulled herself to sleep as a baby, and remembers her parents’ frustration when ordering her to her room as punishment just meant more “private studio time,” she says. At five, Clark was cast in her first musical, Pinocchio, and she recently completed a two- year stint as the Elphaba understudy in the first national tour of Wicked, a musical retelling of the story of the witches of Oz. She performed the role about 150 times in more than thirty cities, but still spent a lot of time “waiting backstage for the chance to be painted green.” The experience of living on the road informed k her new folk-pop solo album: Young Stellar r

Object (a term borrowed from astronomy, which e cla y describes a star not yet fully formed). The album become friends while in college, none of this the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar and Java h ka was produced, engineered, and mixed by Emory music would have ever happened,” says Clark, Monkey in Decatur. edit classmate Ricky Marson 00C. who majored in neuroscience and behavioral Clark and Marson previously teamed up to r “We both have such amazing memories of biology but also studied classical voice at Emory. create Girl Robot, a concept album and YouTube y me tes r

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54 magazine winter 2011 What you’re looking at is a surgically repairedregister heart. What you don’t see is equally impressive.

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56 magazine winter 2011 tribute register Emory leader, parent, dies at 101 Carolyn Carson Moore officer for the DeKalb County Schaible, who died on August Juvenile Court, dealing most of 3, 2010, at age 101, was Emory’s the time with social work and first director of women’s hous- adoption cases. ing and later assistant dean of After more than a dozen women after Emory became a years of dedication to Univer- coed university. She also was sity women and coed housing, involved in initial planning and she retired from Emory at age development of Wesley Woods Carolyn Schaible with (from left) sixty-five. According to her son Geriatric Hospital, where she Emory colleagues Don Moore, Benjamin Moore 61C 6T, “She William McTier, Scott Houston, and received care in her later years. President Walter Martin. was by no means interested in “On occasion, she would retiring,” and began working as talk about the experiences that she was offered as manager in the Office of Aging Georgia. In seven- the newly appointed person doing a job that had teen years of service, she built awareness of poor never been done before,” says Douglas Moore nursing home conditions and founded Georgia’s 57C, her eldest son. “That, to me, was significant— Retired Senior Volunteer program. that she was chosen.” Reflecting on his mother’s “There she was, a classic citizen in her eight- accomplishments at Emory, Douglas Moore ies, willing to promote and help senior citizens,” believes she was selected because of her reputation Douglas Moore says. in the community as hardworking and passionate. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Carolyn graduated from Coker College in Donald Moore and Maynard Schaible, and her Hartsville, South Carolina, and did graduate study daughter Donalyn Elich. Carolyn is survived by at the University of Georgia and at Emory. She children Douglas Moore 57G, Benjamin Moore went on to teach in public schools in South Caro- 61C 63G, Laura Hauser 67C 81G, and Kent lina and at Decatur and Druid Hills High Schools. Moore 71C 73G; ten grandchildren, and eight She served as the first female chief probation great-grandchildren.

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lem if all of humanity turned peaceful at the same time, but no population is stable unless Evolving Empathy it’s immune to invasions by mutants. I’d still worry about that one lunatic who gathers an By frans de waal army and exploits the soft spots of the rest. So, strange as it may sound, I’d be reluc- tant to radically change the human condition. But if I could change one thing, it would be to expand the range of fellow feeling. The greatest problem today, with so many different groups rubbing shoulders on a crowded planet, is excessive loyalty to one’s own nation, group, or religion. Humans are capable of deep disdain for anyone who looks different or thinks another way, even between neighboring groups with almost identical DNA, such as the Asked by a religious magazine what I There is no doubt whatever but that the Israelis and Palestinians. Nations think they are would change about the human species “if I man of the future, the citizen of the com- superior to their neighbors, and religions think were God,” I had to think hard. Every biologist mune, will be an exceedingly interesting they own the truth. When push comes to shove, knows the law of unintended consequences, and attractive creature, and that his psy- they are ready to thwart or even eliminate a close cousin of Murphy’s Law. Anytime we chology will be very different from ours. one another. In recent years, we have seen two fiddle with an ecosystem by introducing new Marxism foundered on the illusion of a huge office towers brought down by airplanes species, we create a mess. Whether it is the culturally engineered human. It assumed that deliberately flown into them as well as massive introduction of the Nile perch to Lake Victoria, we are born as a tabula rasa, a blank slate, to be bombing raids on the capital of a nation, and the rabbit to Australia, or kudzu to the south- filled in by conditioning, education, brainwash- on both occasions the deaths of thousands of ern United States, I am not sure we’ve ever ing, or whatever we call it, so that we’re ready innocents was celebrated as a triumph of good brought improvement. to build a wonderfully cooperative society. over evil. The lives of strangers are often con- Each organism, including our own species, Have you ever noticed how the worst part of sidered worthless. Asked why he never talked is a complex system in and of itself, so why someone’s personality is often also the best? You about the number of civilians killed in the Iraq would it be any easier to avoid unintended may know an anally retentive, detail-oriented War, US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld consequences? In his utopian novel Walden accountant who never cracks a joke, nor answered: “Well, we don’t do body counts on Two, B. F. Skinner thought humans could understands any, but this is in fact what makes other people.” achieve greater happiness and productivity if him the perfect accountant. Or you may have a Empathy for “other people” is the one parents stopped spending extra time with their flamboyant aunt who constantly embarrasses commodity the world is lacking more than oil. children and people refrained from thanking everyone with her big mouth, yet is the life of It would be great if we could create at least a one another. They were allowed to feel indebted every party. The same duality applies to our modicum of it. How this might change things to their community, but not to one another. species. We certainly don’t like our aggressive- was hinted at when, in 2004, Israeli justice Skinner proposed other peculiar codes of ness—at least on most days—but would it be minister Yosef Lapid was touched by images conduct, but those two specifically struck me such a great idea to create a society without it? of a Palestinian woman on the evening news. as blows to the pillars of any society: family ties Wouldn’t we all be as meek as lambs? Our sports “When I saw a picture on the TV of an old and reciprocity. Skinner must have thought he teams wouldn’t care about winning or losing, woman on all fours in the ruins of her home could improve on human nature. Along similar entrepreneurs would be impossible to find, and looking under some floor tiles for her medi- lines, I once heard a psychologist seriously pop stars would sing only boring lullabies. I’m cines, I did think, ‘What would I say if it were propose that we should train children to hug not saying that aggressiveness is good, but it my grandmother?’ ” Even though Lapid’s senti- one another several times a day, because isn’t enters into everything we do, not just murder ments infuriated the nation’s hard-liners, the hugging by all accounts a positive behavior that and mayhem. Removing human aggression is incident showed what happens when empathy fosters good relations? It is, but who says that thus something to consider with care. expands. In a brief moment of humanity, the hugs performed on command work the same? Humans are bipolar apes. We have some- minister had drawn Palestinians into his circle Don’t we risk turning a perfectly meaningful thing of the gentle, sexy bonobo, which we may of concern. gesture into one that we can’t trust anymore? like to emulate, but not too much; otherwise If I were God, I’d work on the reach of We have seen in Romanian orphanages the world might turn into one giant hippie fest empathy. what happens when children are subjected to of flower power and free love. Happy we might the baby-factory ideas of behaviorist psy- be, but productive perhaps not. And our species From The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a chology. I remain deeply suspicious of any also has something of the brutal, domineering Kinder Society by Frans de Waal (Harmony Books, “restructuring” of human nature even though chimpanzee, a side we may wish to suppress, 2009), from a chapter originally titled “Crooked the idea has enjoyed great appeal over the ages. but not completely, because how else would we Timber.” De Waal is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in Emory’s Department of In 1922, Leon Trotsky described the project of a conquer new frontiers and defend our borders? Psychology and director of the Living Links Center at glorious New Man: One could argue that there would be no prob- Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

58 magazine winter 2011 Have a plan.

As A psychology mAjor at Emory, of his estate in appreciation of Emory’s influ- Dusty porter 85c was involved in a plethora ence on his life. “Every day Emory touches the of activities, from fraternity life and under- lives of students like me,” he says. graduate theater to serving as a resident assistant and campus tour guide. For more information on ways you can support Emory with a planned gift, visit www. During his junior year, campus life staff emory.edu/giftplanning or call 404.727.8875. suggested a career in student affairs, advising him on graduate programs and showing him pathways into the profession. Plan to share your experiences.

Now vice president of student affairs at maryland Institute college of Art in Baltimore, porter has named Emory college a beneficiary

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